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Virginia Parents Raise Concerns Over ‘Extremely Invasive’ Survey That Promotes ‘Early Sexualization’
'It's normalizing really dark things'
By Patricia Tolson
November 23, 2021 Updated: November 26, 2021
Virginia parents are raising concerns over what they feel is an “extremely invasive” survey being given to school students that promotes “early sexualization.”
According to its website, the Virginia Department of Health is conducting the survey “in collaboration with the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth, with support from the Department of Education.” It is funded “through a five-year grant provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
“The Department of Health will be gathering information about the health risk behaviors of youth. The Virginia Youth Survey (VYS) has been developed to monitor priority health risk behaviors that contribute markedly to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among youth and adults within the Commonwealth of Virginia. The survey is administered every odd year in randomly selected Virginia public schools.”
Michael Leaser, director of external relations and community relations for The Family Foundation and resident of Fairfax County, Virginia, is concerned about the overreach of the survey.
“For us, one of the core areas is parental rights,” Leaser told The Epoch Times. “From our perspective, parents bear the ultimate primary responsibility for the children’s education. We, as parents, permit public schools to educate our children, but it’s ultimately our responsibility. Frankly, for some of these questions we’re concerned about them even being asked. We think they’re a little too personal.”
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One question Leaser cited asked the child if their parents ever “threatened, bullied you or teased” them. “Those words have different implications,” Leaser said. He is also opposed to one question asking an eighth-grader if they’re transgender. “Some kids may not even quite understand that kind of question so I’m concerned as a parent,” Leaser said.
Cheryl Onderchain, a Loudoun County resident, chair for the Loudoun County chapter of Moms For Liberty, and parent of twin daughters in the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) system, is also troubled by the survey.
“Asking them about their gender, their feelings, and sexual questions like did you drink before having sex the last time? I mean, thanks for giving our teenagers ideas! There’s questions about drugs, drug use, probably drugs my kids don’t even know what they are. Questions about their weight. I mean, way to give teenage girls a complex about their weight. Crazy,” Onderchain told The Epoch Times.
“I don’t like it at all. I think it’s extremely invasive,” said Onderchain, adding that she has taken the step to opt her daughters out of taking the survey.
“I did a little research on it and it looks like the Virginia Department of Health got a five-year grant from the Center for Disease Control (CDC),” Onderchain noted, “and based on the CDC’s behavior over the last 20 months I don’t trust them as far as I can throw them.”
“I don’t know what the ulterior motives are,” Onderchain explained. “I don’t know why my children would be asked these types of questions. More importantly, what are they doing with this data? I don’t trust that this is an anonymous survey.”
Onderchain said students are told not to put their names on the survey “and there is no spot” provided for a child to write their name, but it is her understanding “the students are asked to put their student ID on it, which makes it identifiable information.”
“I worry about what they doing with the data I already don’t trust the schools with protecting student data when they’re using Chrome Books,” Onderchaid said. “I work in technology. Google isn’t a technology company. They’re a data company. So every day I wonder what kind of information they’re selling about my students. Are they creating a profile for them? Are they selling this data to God knows who, including Google? I just think it’s extremely invasive.”
Invasive Questioning
Questions on the high school survey (pdf) are more invasive and graphic, asking teen-aged children numerous questions about suicide, forced sex, drugs, and alcohol use by them and their parents. There are also innocuous questions like, do they eat green salads or drink fruit juice, followed by questions about their sexual preferences, how many sexual partners they’ve had, and did they drink alcohol or do drugs before sex.
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Virginia Parents Raise Concerns Over ‘Extremely Invasive’ Survey That Promotes ‘Early Sexualization’
'It's normalizing really dark things'
By Patricia Tolson
November 23, 2021 Updated: November 26, 2021
Virginia parents are raising concerns over what they feel is an “extremely invasive” survey being given to school students that promotes “early sexualization.”
According to its website, the Virginia Department of Health is conducting the survey “in collaboration with the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth, with support from the Department of Education.” It is funded “through a five-year grant provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
“The Department of Health will be gathering information about the health risk behaviors of youth. The Virginia Youth Survey (VYS) has been developed to monitor priority health risk behaviors that contribute markedly to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among youth and adults within the Commonwealth of Virginia. The survey is administered every odd year in randomly selected Virginia public schools.”
Michael Leaser, director of external relations and community relations for The Family Foundation and resident of Fairfax County, Virginia, is concerned about the overreach of the survey.
“For us, one of the core areas is parental rights,” Leaser told The Epoch Times. “From our perspective, parents bear the ultimate primary responsibility for the children’s education. We, as parents, permit public schools to educate our children, but it’s ultimately our responsibility. Frankly, for some of these questions we’re concerned about them even being asked. We think they’re a little too personal.”
Image: Virginia Parents Raise Concerns Over ‘Extremely Invasive’ Survey That Promotes ‘Early Sexualization’ 'It's normalizing really dark things
One question Leaser cited asked the child if their parents ever “threatened, bullied you or teased” them. “Those words have different implications,” Leaser said. He is also opposed to one question asking an eighth-grader if they’re transgender. “Some kids may not even quite understand that kind of question so I’m concerned as a parent,” Leaser said.
Cheryl Onderchain, a Loudoun County resident, chair for the Loudoun County chapter of Moms For Liberty, and parent of twin daughters in the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) system, is also troubled by the survey.
“Asking them about their gender, their feelings, and sexual questions like did you drink before having sex the last time? I mean, thanks for giving our teenagers ideas! There’s questions about drugs, drug use, probably drugs my kids don’t even know what they are. Questions about their weight. I mean, way to give teenage girls a complex about their weight. Crazy,” Onderchain told The Epoch Times.
“I don’t like it at all. I think it’s extremely invasive,” said Onderchain, adding that she has taken the step to opt her daughters out of taking the survey.
“I did a little research on it and it looks like the Virginia Department of Health got a five-year grant from the Center for Disease Control (CDC),” Onderchain noted, “and based on the CDC’s behavior over the last 20 months I don’t trust them as far as I can throw them.”
“I don’t know what the ulterior motives are,” Onderchain explained. “I don’t know why my children would be asked these types of questions. More importantly, what are they doing with this data? I don’t trust that this is an anonymous survey.”
Onderchain said students are told not to put their names on the survey “and there is no spot” provided for a child to write their name, but it is her understanding “the students are asked to put their student ID on it, which makes it identifiable information.”
“I worry about what they doing with the data I already don’t trust the schools with protecting student data when they’re using Chrome Books,” Onderchaid said. “I work in technology. Google isn’t a technology company. They’re a data company. So every day I wonder what kind of information they’re selling about my students. Are they creating a profile for them? Are they selling this data to God knows who, including Google? I just think it’s extremely invasive.”
Invasive Questioning
Questions on the high school survey (pdf) are more invasive and graphic, asking teen-aged children numerous questions about suicide, forced sex, drugs, and alcohol use by them and their parents. There are also innocuous questions like, do they eat green salads or drink fruit juice, followed by questions about their sexual preferences, how many sexual partners they’ve had, and did they drink alcohol or do drugs before sex.
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Here we go again with Loudoun County, a bedroom suburb of Washington DC which unfortunately largely reflects the very "progressive" philosophy now in vogue in the nation's capitol. Loudoun County School Board is under fire for teaching Critical Race Theory to its juvenile students. A female student was raped in a Loudoun County school restroom, and when the victim's father demanded information about what happened to his daughter, the school board had him arrested. Now this disaster, in which Loudoun County School District circulated a sexual behavior survey that asks its juvenile and teen students intimate questions about their sex lives and beliefs.
This kind of outrageous behavior is why Glenn Youngkin is now Governor-Elect of Virginia. His campaign upset Terry McAuliffe's very "progressive" campaign after McAulliffe stated in a face to face debate that "Parents should not be telling schools what they should teach!" and "I'm not going to allow parents to go into schools!" So, in effect, Loudoun County School District can thank its own behavior in contributing to the defeat of their favored candidate.
This kind of outrageous behavior is why Glenn Youngkin is now Governor-Elect of Virginia. His campaign upset Terry McAuliffe's very "progressive" campaign after McAulliffe stated in a face to face debate that "Parents should not be telling schools what they should teach!" and "I'm not going to allow parents to go into schools!" So, in effect, Loudoun County School District can thank its own behavior in contributing to the defeat of their favored candidate.
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I already knew that you need a bull and a cow to make a calf at that age, but relating that to my friends that were girls didn’t make the jump until much much later. Maybe the folks pushing this had dissimilar experiences, which usually calls for counseling, not screwing up other kids lives.
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