The Policy does not prevent parents from observing their children's behavior, moods, and activities; talking to their children; providing religious or other education to their children; choosing where their children live and go to school; obtaining medical care and counseling for their children; monitoring their children's communications on social media; choosing with whom their children may socialize; and deciding what their children may do in their free time. In short, the Policy places no limits on the plaintiff's ability to parent her child as she sees fit.
The court concluded that the plaintiff, the mother of a student in the Manchester School District identified only as Jane Doe, 'failed to demonstrate that the Policy infringes a fundamental parenting right.' The court went much further, shutting down definitively the mother's claim that the school's policy respecting students' privacy infringed on her ability to properly parent her child.
LGBTQ+ students across California can breathe a sigh of relief now that the first-of-its-kind law was passed, one LGBTQ+ org said. This ruling sets a crucial precedent for maintaining privacy rights among LGBTQ+ students in schools.
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