Back to School: Don't Opt Out of Your Parental Rights:

At the start of each school year, parents have piles of forms to complete, full of legal agreements and personal information.  While they can be daunting to understand, we don’t have to just tick “I agree” without reading, like most do with internet terms of service and the like.  In one experiment an internet company had hundreds or thousands of people agree to sell their souls to the devil, before one or two actually read their terms of service.  While our school systems aren’t “the devil,” we need to be a little more aware of what we agree to on our children’s behalf. We don’t have to abdicate our right to monitor and participate in the development of our child’s values and emotional wellbeing.