If we want our school districts to involve parents in critical issues, we need to tell them. If we want healthy children, we must be educated and active in their lives.
You can take two kinds of action on confidential medical release.
First, call your district superintendent’s office and ask for a copy of the policy on “student absences.” This is often, but not always, Board Policy 5113. The district can email or mail the policy to you. You’ll want to check it for any reference to “confidential medical release.”
Second, if your district does confidential release, ask your school board to include parents rather than exclude them. Parents can work together on changing this policy, just as other Californian communities have done. On the “Upcoming Meetings” page of this website, we post dates for scheduled board meetings, where local parents and taxpayers will testify on this issue.
Please feel free to contact CRI for help in your school district. As parents and as taxpayers, we have every right to speak before our school boards. It is also our responsibility to speak.
You can take two kinds of action on confidential medical release.
First, call your district superintendent’s office and ask for a copy of the policy on “student absences.” This is often, but not always, Board Policy 5113. The district can email or mail the policy to you. You’ll want to check it for any reference to “confidential medical release.”
Second, if your district does confidential release, ask your school board to include parents rather than exclude them. Parents can work together on changing this policy, just as other Californian communities have done. On the “Upcoming Meetings” page of this website, we post dates for scheduled board meetings, where local parents and taxpayers will testify on this issue.
Please feel free to contact CRI for help in your school district. As parents and as taxpayers, we have every right to speak before our school boards. It is also our responsibility to speak.