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EMB Miscellaneous Instructional Policies: Teaching About Controversial Issues

EXEMPTION FROM INSTRUCTION

A parent or person in parental relation may remove the parent’s child from a class or other school activity that conflicts with the parent’s religious or moral beliefs if the parent presents or delivers to the teacher of the parent’s child a written statement authorizing the removal of the child from the class or other school activity.

LIMITATIONS

A parent or person standing in parental relation is not entitled to remove the parent’s child from a class or other school activity to avoid a test or to prevent the child from taking a subject for an entire semester. This policy does not exempt a child from satisfying grade level or graduation requirements in a manner acceptable to the School and TEA.

Education Code 26.010

Adopted: 1/26/96

Amended: 3/26/04

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