[japhyr]

I am a high school teacher, and I've been working with at-risk students my entire career. I have always paid attention to the surveys I am asked to administer to students.

If I were asked to administer this survey, I would have the same red flags. A survey asking these kinds of questions, with names on them, is pretty serious and students deserve to know what is going to be done with the results of such a survey. They also need to know they have the right to make their own decisions about how much personal information to share.

As a teacher, I would expect this kind of survey to be pretty heavily front-loaded. So either the administration did not prepare staff well enough about administering this survey, or this teacher was not paying attention when it was discussed ahead of time.

Many people in education are afraid of being perfectly honest with students. We need more openness in education, not less.