[Kokojmudd]

I am sorry your son had to go through such a rotten experience. If home schooling or private school is not an option I would go to the school with your son, demand a meeting with all adults who were involved in the coercion, and read them the riot act in front of your son so he knows they were wrong for forcing him to sign anything without contacting you first.

If you think your son's rights were violated you might contact the American Center for Law and Justice http://www.aclj.org/

[familyop]

...what Dan(9698) said, and certainly have a look behind the link that Kokojmudd presented.

http://www.aclj.org/

And to All:

BTW, folks, today one of my kids came home from school with lots of stickers (including a bumper sticker) from the following.

http://www.everychildmatters.org/

And not long after the start of the fall semester, the same child brought a very suspect school assignment home from her teacher--several pages of questions that are also in psych. evaluation tests (the MMPI, for one--remember that from Intro. or General Psych. class?).

It's getting uglier, and it's no longer only in California. We'll most likely be homeschooling and/or hiring a tutor or two next year.