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Dan Burton: “Let me read once again, since the gentleman said that this was mostly high school seniors, these were middle school…”

On the recordApril 4, 1995
Let me read once again, since the gentleman said that this was mostly high school seniors, these were middle school students, we are talking about children in the 10, 11, 12-year-old age range. Listen to this question. It is very important: This is of 10, 11, 12-year-old kids: How old were you when you first had sexual intercourse for the first time? Many of these kids are still in puberty, and you are asking them when they had their first sexual experience. And the answers are ``Never had sexual intercourse.'' ``I was 9 years old.'' Or younger. Do you believe that they have a right to ask that kind of a question in that kind of a situation in school? And many of the parents are working parents and they will not read these questionnaires.
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Dan Burton
Indiana
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Addressing concerns about inappropriate questions in school surveys for middle school students.

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