
Folks:
I am a newly elected conservative School Board Director in Boyertown.
Here in Boyertown, we had “raised a lot of dust” at a recent board meeting regarding the PA Youth Survey. The Reading Eagle also had an article from the discussion we had on the PA Youth Survey or “PAYS”. Here is the link for the article: http://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/boyertown-school-board-concerned-about-state-survey
One order of business that our community would like to see changed is our use of the PA Youth Survey. This survey gathers information that many see as totally impertinent to educating our children.
Some sample questions from the Pa Youth Survey are:
“how often do you attend religious services or activities?”,
“People in my family often insult or