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COURTSIDE: Parental Discretion Advised?
Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 87, No. 07 (March 2006): 557-558.
Perry A. Zirkel
Prior to administering a sensitive psychological survey to first-, third-, and fifth-graders, an elementary school in Palmdale, California, mailed a letter to the parents of the students to be surveyed requesting their consent for their children to participate. The consent letter did not state that some of the survey items concerned sexual subjects. Upon learning from their children of the sexual subject matter of some of the items, some of the parents hired a lawyer. The parents filed a claim with the school board contending that the district’s survey ‘robbed’ them of their ‘basic right to control’ their children’s upbringing. Zirkel follows this case as it moves through the court system to the Ninth Circuit court. At issue is whether parents have a free-standing constitutional right to control the exposure of their children to sexual information.
[Related terms: privacy / parental consent / liberty / opt-out](2pp.)
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