Recommendations for Survey Organizers, distributors, promoters:

Please read thoroughly the particular "..." Survey / Questionnaire Form that would most likely apply your intended audience.   If it doesn't seem to ask the questions you are interested in, review one of the other surveys and perhaps use it instead.

Your most effective strategy will be surveying the group with which you share a common element.

For instance, the "School Surveys" will have immediate appeal to:

  1.  Parents, grandparents & teachers* of public school (PS) children, and

  2.  Those that have morals or faith or recognize the inward & outward value of discipline, and

  3.  Those that are upset, dissatisfied and frustrated with PS's anti faith indoctrination and

  4.  Those that can't get their children out of the PS system.

                            *Teachers and school staff are included because they care for the child, want the child to learn and have an interest in their success.

The "Business Survey" will appeal to businesses because they deal directly with:

 1.  The products of the PS system when they hire, train or retrain employees ; and

 2.  Have to deal with the top employee issues of lies, theft and lack of integrity.   And with

 3.  Customers who steal, don't pay bills and/or go bankrupt.  And

 4.  Vendors who aren't trustworthy, etc. all of which is symptomatic of

 5.  A lack of self-discipline or personal ethical standards which affects the profitability your business.

The "Community Survey" will appeal to neighbors because citizens:

  1.  Deal directly with children in the neighborhood, delinquency, rudeness etc.

  2.  Pay school property taxes but are concerned about incidents like Columbine High School.

  3.  Elect officials to be responsible for the schools and the children.

  4.  Elect other officials to be responsible for the safety and well being of the community.

  5.  Must deal with massive increases in crime and antisocial behavior which is symptomatic of

  6.  A lack of discipline or ethical standards which affects the quality of their community .

After you identify your most effective audience; and secondly, your primary concerns; then distribute the surveys and use them to:

• Determine the overall interest level of your audience,   (Does anyone care about PS children?)
• Prioritize each topic of your audience's initial interest level, (What do they care about?)
• Develop lists of helpers by interest level.    (Who is willing to commit?)
• Use the survey "Ref - Links" online for follow up information, education, motivation etc.
• Or use it as a guide to design your own Questionnaire(s).   Modify* it, rewrite it, improve it for your particular situation and your intended audience.

• *If you change our forms be sure to remove our copyrighted name unless you obtain written permission to use it.

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Instructions for Survey Organizers:

• 1st:  Keep in mind, the purpose is to establish programs that ultimately benefit the children.
• 2nd:  "Take it slow.  Focus on progress, not on perfection." R. Warren pg. 137 The Purpose Driven Church.
• Be knowledgeable of the goals to which the survey responses will lead.
• Have a plan for follow up that might include:

• • A little homework on the programs available under each goal so that you can use the responses effectively.
  • Setting a goal(s) for using the gathered information & resources or
  • Have a "Results of the Survey" mail out or
  • Set a "Results" meeting or follow up meeting, date and place  or
  • Something else that suits your needs or a combination of these.

• Duplicate the petition forms and mail them out or distribute them to your volunteers and then collect the information.
• Be advised that a typical survey response by mail will generally range between 1%-2% anything over this amount indicates a very high interest level.
• Generally, information gathering by parents should be permitted on school property and by anyone on public property.  If you anticipate resistance or experience discrimination read and print our Religious Guidelines that can be shown to the PS authority and/or contact Liberty Defenders for help.  They can phone or write a letter explaining your rights to the authorities.
• If your "survey/petition subject" falls under a particular law or requires a specific process then get some help from legal council. The Liberty Defenders list should be your first contact because they might be able to solve it immediately and/or  be able to refer you to someone locally.