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Protection of Pupil Rights

ANNUAL NOTICE
PROTECTION OF PUPIL RIGHTS AMENDMENT

The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (“PPRA”) affords parents/guardians and students over 18 years of age certain rights with regard to student surveys, instructional materials, physical examinations or screenings, and the collection, disclosure, or use of personal information. The District will provide you with the specific or approximate dates during the school year when any of the following are scheduled or expected to be scheduled.

1. Activities involving the collection, disclosure or use of personal information collected from students for the purpose of marketing or selling that information;

2. The administration of any survey containing:

  • Political affiliations or beliefs of the student or student’s parent;
  • Mental or psychological problems of the student or student’s family;
  • Sex behavior or attitudes;
  • Illegal, anti-social, self-incriminating, or demeaning behavior;
  • Critical appraisals of others with whom respondents have close family relationships;
  • Legally recognized privileged relationships, such as with lawyers, doctors, or ministers;
  • Religious practices, affiliations, or beliefs of the student or student’s parent; or
  • Income, other than as required by law to determine program eligibility.

3. Parent consent is required before students must submit to a survey that concerns one or more of the areas in #2 if the survey is funded, in whole or in part, by a program of the U.S. Department of Education.

4. Parents must receive notice and an opportunity to opt a student out of any other survey that concerns the areas in #2.

5. Parents must receive notice and an opportunity to opt a student out of any non-emergency, invasive physical exam or screening required as a condition of attendance, administered by a school and scheduled by the school in advance, and not necessary to protect the immediate health and safety of the student, except for any physical exam or screenings permitted or required under NYS law.

6. Parents must receive notice and an opportunity to opt a student out of activities involving collection, disclosure, or use of personal information collected from students for marketing or to sell or otherwise distribute the information to others. (This does not apply to the collection, disclosure, or use of personal information collected from students for the exclusive purpose of developing, evaluating, or providing educational products or services for, or to, students or educational institutions.)

7. Parents may inspect, upon request and before administration or use of:

  • Protected information surveys of students and surveys created by a third party;
  • Instruments used to collect personal information from students for any of the above marketing, sales, or other distribution purposes; and
  • Instructional material used as part of the educational curriculum.

You will have the opportunity to exclude your child from participating in any of the above activities, by notifying the district in writing. Please call or contact the Building Principal of your child’s school if you have questions about this notice.