The Eliot K-8 Innovation School in Boston, MA, gave sixth- and seventh-graders a “health behavior” survey with questions about their sexual history, oral sex, and transgenderism.
The survey is voluntary, and the students do not give their names.
The Washington Free Beacon has a copy of the survey and a letter from the principal acknowledging the parents’ concerns.
Acknowledges. He doesn’t address any of the concerns:
There are many concerns regarding the appropriateness of the survey questions related to a number of topics including sexual health. We have reached out and shared these concerns with the Superintendent’s Office, Office of Teaching and Learning and the Department of Health and Wellness.Boston Public Schools will respond to the concerns and send a communication to our community. In the spirit of continuous improvement, the district will also creat an opportunity for our families to share feedback in an upcoming scheduled Zoom meeting. In this zoom meeting, the Health and Wellness Office will provide resources for families to use for students who have been negatively impacted by the content of the survey.
Deidre Hall’s sixth-grade student told her all about the “really weird survey” during her history class:
Hall said she had concerns over who has access to the students’ responses and whether the information is truly anonymous. She also took issue with her daughter being exposed to the explicit concepts before students had had “a single ounce of sex education.””She said half her class didn’t even know what any of this stuff meant,” Hall said. “Now they’re coming home and asking their parents and their friends, ‘What’s oral sex?'”
Another mother, who remained anonymous, made a great point: “To go on field trips the district has parents sign permission slips, but for the district to ask our children private explicit sexual questions they are able to do so without consent?”
Last August, Fox News reported on the Parents Defending Education database that contains surveys similar to the one in Boston. It’s all a ploy:
“No matter how children answer on these surveys, schools will consistently manipulate the results, so they can claim that requests for more funding for social emotional learning, equity directors and diversity training are ‘data driven,’” said Parents Defending Education Director of Outreach Erika Sanzi.”The data on students that they mine, store and share with God knows who doesn’t only lead to division among students and staff, but it invariably drives academic outcomes into the ground. It’s a very predictable and sad pattern playing out all over the country,” she continued.According to the Protection of Pupil’s Rights amendment, schools cannot require students answer questions about political beliefs or affiliations, mental problems, sexual behavior or religious beliefs, among other categories, without parental consent.
Sanzi is not wrong. When I taught, it was all about funding, numbers, and status. The students didn’t matter. Districts will do anything to to come out on top or get more money.
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