- Dear______________:
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- I am the parent of________________ who
attends______________ school. Under U.S legislation and federal court
decisions, parents have the primary responsibility for their children's
education, and pupils have certain rights, which the school may not
deny.
- Parents have the right to be assured their
children's beliefs and moral values are not undermined by the schools.
Pupils have the right to have and to hold their values and moral
standards without direct or indirect manipulations by the schools
through the curricula, textbooks, audio-visual materials or
supplementary assignments.
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- Under the Hatch Amendment, I hereby request that
my child NOT be involved in any school activities or materials listed
unless I have first reviewed all the relevant materials and have given
my written consent for their use:
- 1. Psychological and psychiatric treatment that is
designed to affect behavioral, emotional, or attitudinal
characteristics of an individual or designed to elicit information
about attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs or feelings of an
individual or group;
- 2. Values clarifications, use of moral dilemmas,
discussion of religious or moral standards, role-playing or open-ended
discussions of situations involving moral issues, and survival games
including life/death decision exercises;
- 3. Contrived incidents for self-revelation;
sensitivity training, group encounter sessions, talk-ins, magic-circle
techniques, self-evaluation and auto-criticism; strategies designed for
self-disclosure including the keeping of a diary or a journal or a log
book;
- 4. Sociograms, sociodrama; psychodrama; blindfold
walks; isolation techniques;
- 5. Death education, including abortion,
euthanasia, suicide, use of violence, and discussions of death and
dying;
- 6. Curricula pertaining to drugs and
alcohol;
- 7. Nuclear war, nuclear policy and nuclear
classroom games;
- 8. Globalism, one-world government or
anti-nationalistic curricula;
- 9. Discussion and testing on interpersonal
relationships; discussions of attitudes toward parents and
parenting;
- 10. Educating in human sexuality, including
pre-marital sex, contraception, abortion, homosexuality, group sex and
marriages, prostitution, incest, bestiality, masturbation, divorce,
population control, and roles of males and females; sex behavior and
attitudes of student and family;
- 11. Pornography and any materials containing
profanity and/or sexual explicitness;
- 12. Guided-fantasy techniques; hypnotic
techniques; imagery and suggestology;
- 13. Organic evolution, including Darwin's
theory;
- 14. Discussions of witchcraft, occultism, the
supernatural, and mysticism;
- 15. Political and/or religious affiliations of
students or family;
- 16. Income of family;
- 17. Non-academic personality tests; questionnaires
or personal and family life attitudes.
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- The purpose of this letter is to preserve my
child's rights under the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (The
Hatch Amendment) to the General Education Provisions Act, and under its
regulations as published in the Federal Register of September 6, 1984,
which became effective November 12, 1984.
- These regulations provide a procedure for filing
complaints first at the local level and then with the U.S Department of
Education. If a voluntary remedy fails, federal funds can be withdrawn
from those in violation of the law.
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- I respectfully ask you
to send me a substantive response to this letter attaching a copy of
your policy statement on procedures for parental permission
requirements, to notify all my child's teachers, and to keep a copy of
this letter in my child's permanent file. (1)
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- Thank
you for your cooperation.
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- Sincerely,
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- __________________________
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