Feds to schools: You must accept children of undocumented immigrants

[Jazzy]

The Justice and Education Departments are teaming up to remind public schools that they are required to provide all children with equal access to education at the elementary and secondary level regardless of their parents' or guardians' citizenship or immigration status.

Schools are allowed to request proof that children live within the boundaries of the district, for which they typically accept documents like copies of phone and water bills, lease agreements, and affidavits, the guidance says. While schools may accept a parents' drivers license as evidence, they may not require it to establish residency since it would unlawfully bar a student whose parents in the U.S. illegally and do not have a drivers' license.

To prove a student meets age requirements, the school may accept certificates showing a date of birth from a religious institution, hospital or physician, an entry in a family bible, an adoption record, or a parent affidavit. A birth certificate is also an acceptable form of proof of age, but school districts are not allowed to discourage children from enrolling in or attending school because they do not have a birth certificate or they only have one from a foreign country.

Schools are also specifically advised not to inquire about a student's immigration or citizenship status, because that information, "is not relevant to establishing residency in the district, and inquiring about it in the context of establishing residency is unnecessary and may have a chilling or a discouraging effect on student enrollment," a Q&A document for school says.

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What are your thoughts on public schools having to accept children of undocumented immigrants ?

 

[DrLeftover]

Next the Feds will be telling your local government that you can't require a valid ID to vote for Our Dear Leader, but that you MUST have one to get cold medicine.

 

[Jazzy]

I say if the parents cannot prove citizenship status because they are here illegally, these children don't belong in our schools. Period and end of conversation....

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

The Justice and Education Departments are teaming up to remind public schools that they are required to provide all children with equal access to education at the elementary and secondary level regardless of their parents' or guardians' citizenship or immigration status.

Schools are allowed to request proof that children live within the boundaries of the district, for which they typically accept documents like copies of phone and water bills, lease agreements, and affidavits, the guidance says. While schools may accept a parents' drivers license as evidence, they may not require it to establish residency since it would unlawfully bar a student whose parents in the U.S. illegally and do not have a drivers' license.

To prove a student meets age requirements, the school may accept certificates showing a date of birth from a religious institution, hospital or physician, an entry in a family bible, an adoption record, or a parent affidavit. A birth certificate is also an acceptable form of proof of age, but school districts are not allowed to discourage children from enrolling in or attending school because they do not have a birth certificate or they only have one from a foreign country.

Schools are also specifically advised not to inquire about a student's immigration or citizenship status, because that information, "is not relevant to establishing residency in the district, and inquiring about it in the context of establishing residency is unnecessary and may have a chilling or a discouraging effect on student enrollment," a Q&A document for school says.

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What are your thoughts on public schools having to accept children of undocumented immigrants ?

This always been the policy at local schools around here. Like for example, we have a lot of agricultural / seasonal jobs in the area and migrant workers come up from Mexico to work, their kids attend school for the season and eventually go back down to Mexico after work is done.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Hell and a hand basket I tell you! They wont be talking about how the Roman Empire declined and collapsed in the near future but instead future countries will be comparing there decline to when America folded into history.