New Student-Survey Policy Worries Some Researchers
When Linda Rogowski got hold of the survey that Barker, N.Y., school officials were planning to administer to students in her daughter's middle school, she was horrified.
"Have you ever had sexual intercourse ('gone all the way,' 'made
love')?" the survey asked. "How often do you binge eat (eat a lot of
food in a short period of time) and then make yourself throw up or use
laxatives to get rid of the food you have eaten?"
Besides intruding on her family's privacy, such questions might put ideas into the head of her impressionable...
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