[Saundra Duffy]

Thanks for your support of this kind of effort. Good to know we can come together on many issues - like parental notification. For victory & freedom!!!

[GovernmentShrinker]

There are a few cases where parental notification isn't appropriate, such as when there's good reason to believe that a pregnancy (or venereal disease, or serious physical injury, or whatever help is being sought for) came about at the hands of a parent. Notifying a father that his adolescent daughter is seeking help because she's pregnant, when he's likely the one who impregnated her, is obviously not wise. Likewise if she's seeking counseling and/or medical attention as a result of severe beatings endured at home. But any thinking person can see that these sorts of cases need to be handled by the police and the courts, not by school bureaucrats. The only thing school officials should be empowered to do without a parent's consent is call the police.