PARENTS PANEL SOUGHT FOR SCHOOL SURVEYS.Byline: Karen Karen Any member of a variety of tribal peoples of southern Myanmar (Burma). Constituting the second largest minority in Myanmar, the Karen are not a unitary group in any ethnic sense, as they differ among themselves linguistically, religiously, and economically. Maeshiro Staff Writer PALMDALE - Palmdale School District The Palmdale School District is a school district that serves a major part of the city of Palmdale, California (USA). The Palmdale School District was first formed in 1888. Approximately 28,000 students are enrolled in the Palmdale School District. trustees want to appoint a committee of parents and administrators to review requests to survey pupils as an additional safeguard against students being asked inappropriate questions. The committee is proposed as part of a district policy crafted after a controversial survey of Mesquite Mesquite, city, United States Mesquite (məskēt`), city (1990 pop. 101,484), Dallas co., N Tex., a suburb of Dallas; inc. 1887. Manufacturing includes industrial power supplies, building materials, and medical equipment. School students that asked questions of a sexual nature. ``I asked that we include a piece for a standing committee made up of parents and district administrators that will jointly review any survey that goes to parents. They will put their concerns and stamp of approval, and then it would go on to cabinet,'' said board president Sheldon Epstein. ``We want parents to feel that they are valued.'' The board at Tuesday's meeting sent back for revision the proposed policy on research projects. The policy was on the agenda for a second reading and possible adoption. District administrators are investigating the circumstances CIRCUMSTANCES, evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact. 2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and improbable, recent or ancient; they may have happened near us, or afar off; they are public or of the survey, which was halted after complaints from parents. The survey was administered last month to 13 third- and fifth-graders by a mental health therapist for her doctoral degree. ``The main thing is we would not have a similar situation. Having a committee puts some teeth into the policy. More importantly, it makes it a community effort where parents are directly involved in what materials their children see,'' board member Sandy Corrales Corrales can refer to: People
The survey asked youngsters if they thought about having sex, if they thought about ``touching other people's private parts private parts n. men or women's genitalia, excluding a woman's breasts, usually referred to in prosecutions for "indecent exposure" or production and/or sale of pornography. ,'' and if they didn't trust people because they might want sex. Other questions asked if youngsters had bad dreams or nightmares, if they felt lonely or angry, or if ``scary scar·y adj. scar·i·er, scar·i·est 1. Causing fright or alarm. 2. Easily scared; very timid. scar ideas or pictures just pop into my head.'' District officials said at the time the survey was stopped that the district's director of psychological services had reviewed the questions prior to the survey and told the therapist to take out about a half-dozen questions that he deemed inappropriate, but that was not done. |
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