For Debi the Hatch Amendment, and reverse miranda card

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Debi,

This is what a reverse miranda card looks like. It has two sides. I

have made a few myself.

Short and Sweet Version

Type it out and laminate it. Make a bunch, as kids can lose these.

There are many variations, this is just the " theme. "

FRONT:

Dear Government Agent: I am exercising my right to remain silent.

Please do not coerce me into answering your questions. Please call my

parents immediately.

BACK:

List Parents Names and ALL contact phone numbers. List any other

person that can " stand in " until parent can be reached. List your

family attorney and number.

Here is a link to the Hatch Amendment

members.tripod.com/~bcbruns/ad.htm

Here is what a hatch amendment letter to file wiht the school looks

like.

From:______________________________________________

Address: ___________________________________________________________

To:_______________________________________________ Principal

of ___________________________________________________ School

____________________________, ______________________, USA

Dear ________________________:

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.

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:

Psychological and psychiatric treatment that is designed to affect

the

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;

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;

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;

Sociograms, sociodrama; psychodrama; blindfold walks; isolation

techniques;

Death education, including abortion, euthanasia, suicide, use of

violence,

and discussions of death and dying;

Curricula pertaining to drugs and alcohol; Nuclear war, nuclear

policy and

nuclear classroom games; Globalism, one-world government or

anti-nationalistic curricula; Discussion and testing on interpersonal

relationships; discussions of attitudes toward parents and parenting;

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;

Pornography and any materials containing profanity and/or sexual

explicitness;

Guided-fantasy techniques; hypnotic techniques; imagery and

suggestology;

Organic evolution, including Darwin's theory; Discussions of

witchcraft,

occultism, the supernatural, and mysticism; Political and/or

religious

affiliations of students or family; income of family; Non-academic

personality tests; questionnaires of personal and family life

attitudes. 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. 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.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Signed this ___________ Day of __________,200__