
Oh, please. the questions are still in a survey. But, what could be more misinformation than to say that boys can be girls? And, to teach the kids that this is okay. Example: women are now "egg producers" in some gender facilities. |
So none of the questions in the Youth survey the PP pasted on this thread are being asked? Or are they? Those questions are insane and if they are being asked I would like to opt my kids out of them. Is it SEL, FLE or what? What subject do I need to opt out to prevent my kids from having to answer such personal questions AT SCHOOL. |
It's funny how that one little word makes all the difference. |
"It's in some survey somewhere." ![]() ![]() Go away, MAGA troll. You don't even have kids in FCPS. |
A (liberal) neighbor did a tally last year. Between her 2 kids, there were something like 12-13 opt outs that came home last year. Some were sent by paper and would not have made it out of the backpack if she wasn't checking. Some were digital on SIS. Some notifications came via FCPS email where a parent has to click on a link, of which she received no less than 5 or 6 such emails per week, 1 from each school, several school board members and a Reid email. This is mixed in with the dozen or so teacher emails, PTA emails, scout emails, club emails and coach/sports emails each week. The opt outs are not easily accessible, nor are they in a single list with a detailed description of the data gathered, by whom, how it is stored, the duration of storage and whether it is monetized. The opt outs do not come with a warning letting parents know that all answers are linked to their individual student and their laptop. The opt outs do not contain a warning of how often FCPS has had data breaches of personal, identifying information of teachers and students alike, including teacher financial information and student health, mental health, discipline and special ed data. Many of these questions, including many of the SEL questions, are mental health questions that should be protected by HIPPA, especially since the information is not anonymous and is linked to an individual minor student who has no understanding of their HIPPA privacy rights. The students and their information should be protected by the highest level of privacy. Instead, the information is monetized by FCPS and sent to a private for profit company with zero HIPPA privacy protections. There is no HIPPA notification with these survey questions. The opt outs do not contain a student data privacy statement from FCPS, explaining how they are safeguarding this information that is linked to your minor student who is unable to give consent to the sharing of this information. An opt out method is designed to catch busy parents and limited English speaking parents unaware, so they miss the information and the opportunity to opt out. The opt out method is designed to give the illusion of parent involvement and informed consent, when in reality it does quite the opposite. Informed consent should be consent It should not be not opt out by default with FCPS hoping they catch the parents unaware, distracted or busy. An opt in model is informed consent. And opt out model is not. And on the note of the SEL screener many of the questions asked are the same type of questions asked by a pediatrician or mental health professional during a routine medical screening. The difference is, at a pediatrician or counselors office, before a minor answers these questions, their parent signs HIPPA consent. The surveys are given 1:1 or privately, in a health setting or by a trained health professional, not in a classroom of 30 of their peers, friends and enemies, by a non trained in mental health teacher, in a completely uncontrolled setting with no parent explicit permission or consent. These surveys, particularly the SEL screener and the County Youth surveys that ask questions about mental health, are a violation of student rights. |
Is is...here you go. https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/forms/SSAW-FFX-Youth-Survey-8-10-12.pdf |
The Fairfax County School Board and the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors work together to administer the Fairfax County Youth Survey. The survey is given to all students in grades 6, 8, 10, and 12 each fall. It provides a wealth of information about a variety of topics related to our youth that influence their physical and mental well being, from sleep and nutritional habits to substance abuse behaviors to symptoms of depression and suicidal thoughts. |
+1 to the opt in model. |
The questions are from the County Youth survey given to all 8th, 10th and 12th graders in their classrooms on their FCPS laptops each year. All students are automatically given the survey, unless the parents explicitly know to opt out. The survey is only available in archived format. It used to be publicly available, but the county knows how controversial it is so they moved the link to archives. It is not available for non English speaking parents to view, so recent immigrants who only speak Spanish, Urdu or any other language are likely unaware that their minor children are being surveyed in this manner and detail on these topics. |
The information can be found online. The poster clearly identified the questions as being from the County Youth Survey given to all 8th, 10th and 12th graders. The political trolling by the person(s) attached to collecting student data of other people's mi or children is astounding. This is not a partisan issue |
The kid can opt-out at any time. ![]() |
Crickets. They are caught in their lies. |
No, we can very clearly see the posters referring to the SEL screener. Stop lying. Guess Republicans can't make a point without lying. |
Bigots gonna bigot. |
Google Fairfax County Youth Survey. Go to the page. Click on the link for archived information. The actual survey quoted is listed there. The survey asks all of those questions summarized in that post You can download and read it. The survey is given each year to all 8th, 10th and 12th graders in FCPS unless their parents opt out. The initial topic of this thread is FCPS refusing to switch to an opt in format for all surveys administered to your minor child, instead of the current opt in. Some posters are (legitimately) concerned about the SEL survey. Many of us with older kids are very concerned about the county youth survey due to the intrusive nature of the questions and the fact that it is no longer anonymous as it is administered by fcps laptop and not by paper. If FCPS were to follow the governor's guidance, then the youth survey would also switch to opt in. FCPS refusing to follow the guidance is not solelh about the SEL screener, which has its own set of issues. It is also about the youth survey. The person so vehemently against parental consent has political or financial motives not related to the well being or privacy of minor students. Any time someone is this aggressive about someone else's children on private issues like this, every parents spidey sense shoukd start tingling. Again, this is not a liberal vs conservative issue. The person making it into one is showing their true colors. Liberal parents want their kids data protected too. |