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Wednesday, July 26, 2006

School forms

Do you know you have to sign that your child has never been disciplined or expelled from another school(or explain why), even for kindergarten? Lots of questions about what is their primary language, what is spoken in the home, what other languages do they speak, etc. They want to know about your pregnancy with the child(seems invasive to me-why is it their business?) Sign away that you know your kid may have internet access and can get in trouble for violating the district's policies on it. They want you to sign away the right to see beforehand or approve them using your child's picture/video/audio or artwork, etc. to promote the district (and their liability).
In addition to medical records you have to sign a page about the chicken pox vaccine specifically.
They even want to know what you consider to be your child's greatest strength and possible concerns.
I expected the stuff about emergency contacts and health info, but wow. And especially in this day of frivolous lawsuits, I don't like to have written records of every single thing.

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