Parental Rights in Education

Parents or guardians have a right to raise concerns regarding a school’s compliance with HB 1557 - Parental Rights in Education.

Duval County Public Schools has developed a process to address these concerns. Step One of the process addresses the concern at the school level. If you have addressed the concern at the school level, but feel your concern has not been resolved, you may move to Step Two of the process using this form, which notifies the district office. To submit a written concern to the district about the topics within the Parental Rights in Education bill, the student’s parent or legal guardian must use the form below to denote the school and summarize the nature of the concern, specifically describing the factual issues. A district administrator will respond and take steps to resolve the concern within the designated time frame.

School

Name of Parent or Guardian

Name of Student

Student ID

Date of Incident

Parent or Guardian Email

Parent or Guardian Phone

As the parent or guardian, I have attempted to resolve the dispute with the School Principal.

Yes

No

Date School Principal Responded to Dispute or Concern

CLASSIFY THE NATURE OF YOUR DISPUTE

Check which of the following district requirements your dispute concerns:

In accordance with the rights of parents enumerated in ss. 1002.20 and 1014.04, F.S., the school district must adopt procedures for notifying a student’s parent if there is a change in the student’s services or monitoring related to the student’s mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being and the school’s ability to provide a safe and supportive learning environment for the student. The procedures must reinforce the fundamental right of parents to make decisions regarding the upbringing and control of their children by requiring school district personnel to encourage a student to discuss issues relating to the student’s well-being with his or her parent or to facilitate discussion of the issue with the parent. The procedures may not prohibit parents from accessing any of their student’s educational and health records created, maintained, or used by the school district, as required by s. 1001.22(2), F.S.

A school district may not adopt procedures or student support forms that prohibit school district personnel from notifying a parent about his or her student’s mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being, or a change in related services or monitoring, or that encourage or have the effect of encouraging a student to withhold from a parent such information. School district personnel may not discourage or prohibit parental notification of and involvement in critical decisions affecting a student’s mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being. This requirement does not prohibit a school district from adopting procedures that permit school personnel to withhold information from a parent if a reasonably prudent person would believe that disclosure would result in abuse, abandonment, or neglect as defined in s. 39.01, F.S.

Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 8 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.

At the beginning of the school year, the school district must notify parents of each healthcare service offered at their student’s school and the option to withhold consent or decline any specific service. Parental consent to a health care service does not waive the parent’s right to access his or her student’s educational health records or to be notified about a change in his or her student’s services or monitoring.

Before administering a well-being questionnaire or health screening form to a student in kindergarten through grade 8, the school district must provide the questionnaire or health screening form to the parent and obtain the permission of the parent.

DESCRIBE THE DISPUTE WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT

Describe the dispute:

PROPOSED RESOLUTION

Describe your proposed resolution:

DESCRIBE WHY YOU BELIEVE YOUR ISSUE HAS NOT BEEN RESOLVED BY THE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL

Describe what was not resolved:

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Parental Rights in Education

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