The Michigan Department of Education plants seeds of mental illness, self-harm, and radical gender ideology in Michigan students via its Michigan Profile for Healthy Youth (MiPHY) survey. The survey is given every other year at schools across the state to students in seventh, ninth, and 11th grade.
Michigan Enjoyer obtained copies of the survey as well as a list of 12 schools that administered the questionnaire to students during this past school year.
If a school participates in the program, parents are sent parental notification forms with the option to opt their student out of completing the survey. The form, however, downplays the sensitivity of many of the questions, telling parents, “Participation in the survey will cause little or no risk to any student.”
Yet these surveys pose questions that establish a dangerous blanket assumption—that most middle- and high-school students are either aware of or are experiencing issues with mental health, sex, or addiction—but provide parents with little to no information on what their child will be asked. No sample questions are provided to parents in the notification form.
Disturbingly, the 2023-2024 survey included questions such as, “Some people describe themselves as transgender when their sex at birth does not match the way they think or feel about their gender. Are you transgender?” and “During the past 12 months, did you ever feel so sad or hopeless almost every day for two weeks or more in a row that you stopped doing some usual activities?”
The survey also asked students, “How old were you when you had sexual intercourse for the first time?” and “The first time you had sexual intercourse, how old was your partner?” Schools—places of learning—are mining data on the sexual history of minors and creating conversations about sensitive topics that do not belong in the classroom.
According to the state of Michigan, the information collected by MiPHY surveys is vital in creating “effective programs” to address these very issues, the survey reads.
Rather than addressing issues, like the state proclaims, these surveys have the potential to create them. Repeated exposure to transgenderism or suicide, in a supposed safe space like school, normalizes the experience—if school is telling me I might feel this way, then maybe I do.
Students younger than 12 can potentially take the survey, according to the possible ages students can select. The survey is explicit in asking questions about sexual habits, including: “The last time you had sexual intercourse, did you or your partner use a condom?” and “During your life, with whom have you had sexual contact?”
Students are also asked how they describe their sexual orientation, with options such as heterosexual, gay, bisexual, and questioning.
Schools that participated in the 2023-2024 cycle included Howell High School, Grandville High School, and Saline High School. In a letter sent to Howell Superintendent Erin MacGregor, the state said, “The information generated from this project will be used by numerous education and health agencies to plan and implement effective programs and allocate resources that will affect student learning and achievement.”
Individual schools choose to participate in these questionnaires, and student compliance is assumed, unless the child or parent is aware of the invasive and inappropriate questions and opts out.
There are two versions of the survey—MiPHY and MiPHY Basic—the only difference being that the basic version does not cover questions that “ask about sexual behaviors that cause AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases, and pregnancy,” according to the parental notification form.
The survey takes an entire class period to complete, pulling students away from necessary learning time. Michigan was recently ranked 31 out of 50 states in eighth-grade math capability. Yet students are pulled out of class to answer questions about sex and gender identity.
The surveys are given every odd year, and participating schools are given a $500 stipend for opting into the program.
While Michigan education results continue to plummet post-Covid, the state would rather ask students about their feelings than test if they know the quadratic formula or basic civics. The MiPHY survey is yet another example of radical ideology and victim mindsets being pushed on children, and Michigan parents should know what’s happening in the schools.
Kamden Mulder is a contributing writer for Michigan Enjoyer.
