Opting Out Appears Futile
Different states have different laws about parental consent for non academic school surveys. The CDC instructs the schools that are administering the YRBS questionnaire to obtain proper parental consent and to follow all state and local laws. Yet in recent cases, children whose parents previously opted their children out of non-academic surveys were still pressured to take a sexual survey, and many did. Some took photos and video of what they were given against their will. Parents’ responses are heartbreaking. Some parents talked about how in one day, all of their work to protect their child was destroyed. Some talked about the total lack of trust now that this sexual boundary has been crossed with their kids. One read actual survey questions out loud in a school board meeting. The parent reading suggested that some of the questions ARE SEX INSTRUCTIONS for her middle school child to learn from!
Parents who knowingly opted their children out are speaking up the loudest. Their parenting decisions were flat-out ignored, and a sexual boundary was CROSSED with their children. They want answers. They want apologies. They want to protect their children.
A parent in Antrim, New Hampshire, stated she was very clear with the school on the morning of the survey. The school oddly insisted her freshman daughter take the YRBS anyway. Her daughter had completed two pages of the survey before the mother had received her hysterical texts with pictures. She had the school rip up the survey in front of her child’s face.
Some students took the YRBS on their school Chromebooks and found that the school’s Go Guardian blocking software was ON and recording their every keystroke. It interfered with the administration of the test because of the sexualized keywords. How disturbing to find that the spying software was on when they are told the test was anonymous and private.
See here how the 2025 YRBS has played out in New Hampshire.
Consequences may result from these recent boundary violations. Good parents will likely seek alternatives to what they consider a clear and present danger. Public school enrollment has already been on the decline. What is the end goal here? To drive everyone away? To ultimately only serve special Ed students? To separate parents from children? To make our children so disrupted they’ll be useless, or even dangerous? Aware parents are likely to refuse this type of environment for their children. Where does this really lead? How are parents supposed to respond? What should a good parent do?
See parents speak about their experience here.
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