So, republicans don't like ...

[SkyRock]

government to tell them what to do?  I think thats what I hear from republicans.  What if you scheduled a dentist appointment for you daughter and needed to check her out of school. 

This is a new law in the state of Mississippi:

According to State Law 37-13-91, a scheduled medical or dental appointment must have PRIOR APPROVAL of the principal or his/her designee in order to be excused, except in the case of an emergency for school year 2008-09.  Upon returning to school a proper excuse must be presented from the attending physician/dentist.

So I have to ask the principal and get her permission to take my daughter to the dentist. 

the republican NCLB hard at work.

[john9001]

you don't have to get permission to take her to the dentist, you have to get permission to take her out of school.

[lazs2]

I would contrast that with the liberal socialist democrat rules that say that they can take your daughter to an abortion clinic without your permission and without ever even telling you.

I would want the principal.. or someone.. to check out anyone who came to the school and said that they were "dad" and were checking their "daughter" out of school I would think tho.

lazs

[storch]

why are you confusing the boy with facts?

[SkyRock]

just talking about this law, lazs, what do you think about it? 

[lazs2]

what didn't you understand?

I want whoever is in charge to make damn sure that the guy he turns my daughter over to is who he says he is.

I also do not want the school to decide if my underage daughter gets a medical procedure... a possibly life threatening and life changing surgical one.... without my permission  much less without ever telling me.

sooo.. back at you.. how do you feel about those two things?

lazs

[Anaxogoras]

I think he understood that you never answered his question, but answered your own instead.

[sluggish]

At my job I require my people to give prior notice and doctors excuse in order for an absence to be excused unless it's an emergency.  The problem as I see it is a reflection on a society where the vast majority are so unconscious of everyone around them that such a law would have to be drawn up in the first place.  This should be a no-brainer.  If little Sunshine needs to go to the dentist, you give the school prior notice and send a doctor's excuse when she returns.  There shouldn't need to be a law because YOU SHOULD BE DOING IT ALREADY.  It's called consideration of others.

[killnu]

I want whoever is in charge to make damn sure that the guy he turns my daughter over to is who he says he is.

I also do not want the school to decide if my underage daughter gets a medical procedure... a possibly life threatening and life changing surgical one.... without my permission  much less without ever telling me.

lazs

The school can verify that I am the father without me having to get prior approval from the principal to make an appointment for my daughter.
As far as your second point....I agree...but the law in question said nothing about that.

[Toad]

Back in the Age of Dinosaurs when I was a kid attending a Catholic school this was all standard procedure. You had to give the nun a note a least a day in advance when you were going to be out of class for some reason. When you returned you had to have a note from the place you went saying you went and did what you said you were going to do.

Sounds like back to the future to me.

[Ripsnort]

just talking about this law, lazs, what do you think about it? 

you don't have to get permission to take her to the dentist, you have to get permission to take her out of school.

...and, I highly doubt any principal would deny a parent permission to take the kid  out of school for any reason. I'm speculating that there was a real problem down there  that generated the need for this new legislation, not sure what it was, but its evident that this new law was needed. I don't think we're getting the whole story from Skyrock, as to make his partisan snip about the right.

[Hap]

A non-thing thing.  Take the kid to where the kid needs to be.  Who cares what the school says.  Grade school or high school at that.

[Mojava]

 

According to State Law 37-13-91, a scheduled medical or dental appointment must have PRIOR APPROVAL of the principal or his/her designee in order to be excused, except in the case of an emergency for school year 2008-09.  Upon returning to school a proper excuse must be presented from the attending physician/dentist.

  Focus Laz,  read that again slowly.  The point is, a Parent has to get permission from the Principal to take his child to the doctor.

[Anaxogoras]

but its evident that this new law was needed.

This thread is ridiculous.  A parent should be able to take their kid out of school without notice, and for whatever reason they wish.

All you so-called conservatives or libertarians are just taking the opposite side here because it's skyrock who made the original post.

[Anaxogoras]

There shouldn't need to be a law because YOU SHOULD BE DOING IT ALREADY.  It's called consideration of others.

Putting the group above the individual?  Liberal.