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A concerned parent in the Southeast Polk School District shared a survey given to their sixth-grade student which asked what pronouns the student goes by.
Unlike the survey given by Pleasant Valley, the pronoun question from Southeast Polk appears to have been optional. The question was included in a document titled “All About You.”
Here was the question:
Parents were not notified of the question being included in the survey.
The Iowa Standard contacted the communications department for Southeast Polk to ask if parents are being notified of answers to the survey.
