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http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/your-rights-parent-public-school-student http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/your-rights-parent-pu... makes it seem li
by dalke 10y ago
http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/your-rights-parent-public-school-student http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/your-rights-parent-pu... makes it seem like there is a US law which prohibits a school from asking for an ID. ("The people who work at the school are not allowed to ask parents to show an ID or to give a social security number. You don't have to answer questions about your immigration status or your child's.")
http://www.nj.com/cumberland/index.ssf/2014/04/aclu_takes_south_jersy_schools_to_task_over_registration_policies.html http://www.nj.com/cumberland/index.ssf/2014/04/aclu_takes_so... says that ID isn't required to enroll a student into the school district. More specifically:
> In the letter to various school districts, Shalom cites the 1982 United States Supreme Court case Plyler v. Doe, which decided that undocumented children living in this country cannot be precluded from public elementary and secondary schools because of immigration status.
> ... “We were surprised by the number and broad range of school districts with restrictive, discriminatory enrollment policies,” said Jeanne LoCicero, deputy legal director of the state ACLU. “These policies exist in almost every county, from the poorest cities to the wealthiest suburbs, and everywhere in between. Clearly, the scale of this problem demands serious action, and serious self-examination among New Jersey school districts.”
You can ask what their policy is for undocumented people or those without id.
If they ask "aren't you a US citizen?" you can say "you are not legally required to know that."
However, while I suspect that may let you pick up your child, meet the teacher, and attend PTA meetings, I don't know if you might not be allowed to chaperone or volunteer.
From one of Skenazy's posts (who schoen mentioned), that may require background checks, as in http://www.freerangekids.com/no-mam-you-may-not-chaperone-your-sons-field-trip-without-a-background-check/ http://www.freerangekids.com/no-mam-you-may-not-chaperone-yo... .
- mgamache 10y agofrom this article: http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/08/us/schools-immigration-checks/ http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/08/us/schools-immigration-checks/ > "They may ask for a parent's driver's license. But only to establish residency, not to determine legal immigration status, the guidelines say." It looks like they can ask for proof of residency, but not immigration status.
- dalke 10y agoIn case it wasn't clear, "residency" here means residency in the district, not residency in the US. Nor is a license required for that proof. For example, http://www.browardschools.com/Parents-Students/Parent-Student-Pages/Register-My-Child-In-School http://www.browardschools.com/Parents-Students/Parent-Studen... shows that a Notarized lease agreement and a utility bill suffice for that county. For that matter, https://www.hcps.org/parents/proofofresidency.aspx https://www.hcps.org/parents/proofofresidency.aspx says a driver’s license is not acceptable as proof of residency.
- mgamache 10y agoRight. What's interesting here (in Indiana -- and probably a lot of states) is that you can't get state ID without proof of being a US Citizen or proper immigration status. So, asking for a state id is the equivalent of asking about citizenship/immigration status.