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Questions for school board candidates from "Issues and Action in Education", an e-letter of EdWatch, a non profit organization in Minnesota October 11, 2005
Following are some suggested questions to use to help evaluate your school board candidates. If you have a good candidate to support, please do what you can to help them get elected.
PARENTS' RIGHTS
- Do you oppose school districts collecting student data with non- academic student surveys involving students' personal behavior, values, attitudes, beliefs, or those of their family and friends? (Examples, Teen Screen, Minnesota Student Survey, Search Institute, etc.) [In Washington, we have the Washington State Survey of Adolescent Health Behaviors.]
- Do you support requiring parental permission on all non-academic student surveys that the district may be involved in?
- Do you oppose the creation of a district universal pre-school system?
- Do you oppose all-day, every-day kindergarten?
- Do you support the right of parents to home school their children?
- Do you believe in the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children?
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