Worry Over Student Surveying Leads Missouri Attorney General to Subpoena Seven School Districts

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School surveys that collect information from students and create a perceived need for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum have caught the attention of Missouri authorities.

Attorney General Eric Schmitt issued subpoenas this week to seven school districts that allegedly employ student surveysโ€”created by education companies Panorama and Project Wayfinderโ€”to gather data about parentsโ€™ political beliefs and income levels, as well as racial identity, sexual behaviors, and mental health.

โ€œThose same groups come in and sell that curriculum to theย schools,โ€ said Kimberly Hermann, general counsel with Southeastern Legal Foundation, a national nonprofit law firm that defends liberty.

โ€œThe contracts with these companies are public record so theyโ€™re supposed to be approved during school board meetings, but the surveys are happening without parental consent and parental notification.โ€

In response, Schmitt has launched an investigation into the use of student surveys at Mehlville School District, Webster Groves School District, Jefferson City School District, Leeโ€™s Summit R-7 School District, Park Hill School District, Springfield School District, and Neosho School Districtโ€”with an eye on violations of Missouriโ€™s Family Educational Right and Privacy Act (FERPA), or the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA).

โ€œSubjecting students to personal, invasive surveys created by third-party consultants, potentially without parentsโ€™ consent, is ridiculous and does nothing to further our childrenโ€™s education,โ€ Schmitt said in a statement online.

Hermann details in a May 1 letter to Schmitt that Webster Groves School District requires middle school students to take a survey on โ€œLGBTQIA+ Struggles!โ€ that asks: โ€œWhat are your preferred pronouns, what struggles have you experienced related to LGBTQIA+, and what would you like to see in the school in order to be more inclusive?โ€

โ€œThere are federal statutes that theyโ€™re not supposed to ask these questions,โ€ said Andy Wells, the Missouri chapter president of No Left Turn in Education.

โ€œThe problem is that school districts, and some of the companies that are being hired by school districts, donโ€™t care. They just ignore it. They do it anyway and if somebody doesnโ€™t like it, youโ€™ll have to sue them.โ€

Second-grade students were asked: โ€œWhen is the first time you noticed that people can be different races from you, what did you notice, and do you feel more comfortable around people who look like you?โ€

โ€œThe goal here is to teach these kids that America is a white country of white supremacy and to destroy the nuclear family,โ€ Hermann alleges. โ€œIf bad actors in the progressive Left are not stopped, then weโ€™re just going to have a further divide in this country among our kids.โ€

Byย Juliette Fairley

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