U.S. Public Schools: The feds are tracking your kid

[Guest guest]

Would it bother you to know that the [u.S.] federal Centers for Disease Control had been shown your daughter’s health records to see how she responded to an STD/teen-pregnancy-prevention program? How about if the federal Department of Education and Department of Labor scrutinized your

son’s academic performance to see if he should be “encouraged†to leave

high school early to learn a trade? Would you think the government was intruding on your territory as a parent?Under regulations the Obama Department of Education released this month, these scenarios could

become reality. The department has taken a giant step toward creating a

national student database that will track students by their personal information from **preschool through career**. Although current federal law prohibits this, the department decided to ignore Congress and, in effect, rewrite the law. Student privacy and parental authority will suffer.Read

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