Parents, if you will use the Hatch Letter to demand that your child be educated and not made into a social engineering test pieces and teach them the Decalration of independence and Constitution, along with the weekly sermons found on the home page, your child will be prepared to take our country back!
The above long sentence is due to my having gone to a public school. Had I been homeschooled, I would have made the sentence more correct, if not perfect!
Following is the Hatch Amendment letter, this letter is designed to guarantee that parents can and do maintain the right to determine their child's educational path. We have done the letter on a white background with black letters in order to better enable you to copy it.
We suggest that you copy it to your word processor program, add the pertinent data, such as name, school etc. make and print four copies. One for the teacher, one for the principal, one for the superintendent of schools and one for yourself. These are best delivered in person. Be polite, but be firm! This is your child, not theirs God gave you the responsibility of raising that child: Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he/she should go: and when he/she is old, he/she will not depart from it. (ACP/KJV)), not the schools and it is you that God will hold accountable for those children He has entrusted to you!
From:______________________________________________
Address: ___________________________________________________________
To:_______________________________________________ Principal
of ___________________________________________________ School
____________________________, ______________________, USA
Dear ________________________:
I am the parent of_____________________ who attends_____________________school. Under U.S. legislation and federal court decisions, parents have the primary responsibility for their child's education, and pupils have certain rights which the school may not deny.
Parents have the right to be assured their child's beliefs and moral values are not undermined by the schools. Pupils have the right to have and to hold their values and moral standards without direct or indirect manipulations by the schools through the curricula, textbooks, audio-visual materials or supplementary assignments.
Under the Hatch Amendment, I hereby request that my child NOT be involved in any school activities or materials listed unless I have first reviewed all the relevant materials and have given my written consent for their use:
Psychological and psychiatric treatment that is designed to affect the behavioral, emotional, or attitudinal characteristics of an individual or designed to elicit information about attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs or feelings of an individual or group;
Values clarifications, use of moral dilemmas, discussion of religious or moral standards, role-playing or open-ended discussions of situations involving moral issues, and survival games including life/death decision exercises;
Contrived incidents for self-revelation; sensitivity training, group encounter sessions, talk-ins, magic-circle techniques, self-evaluation and auto-criticism; strategies designed for self-disclosure including the keeping of a diary or a journal or a log book;
Sociograms, sociodrama; psychodrama; blindfold walks; isolation techniques;
Death education, including abortion, euthanasia, suicide, use of violence, and discussions of death and dying;
Curricula pertaining to drugs and alcohol; Nuclear war, nuclear policy and nuclear classroom games; Globalism, one-world government or anti-nationalistic curricula; Discussion and testing on interpersonal relationships; discussions of attitudes toward parents and parenting;
Educating in human sexuality, including pre-marital sex, contraception, abortion, homosexuality, group sex and marriages, prostitution, incest, bestiality, masturbation, divorce, population control, and roles of males and females; sex behavior and attitudes of student and family;
Pornography and any materials containing profanity and/or sexual explicitness;
Guided-fantasy techniques; hypnotic techniques; imagery and suggestology;
Organic evolution, including Darwin's theory; Discussions of witchcraft, occultism, the supernatural, and mysticism; Political and/or religious affiliations of students or family; income of family; Non-academic personality tests; questionnaires of personal and family life attitudes.
The purpose of this letter is to preserve my child's rights under the Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (The Hatch Amendment) to the General Education Provisions Act, and under its regulations as published in the Federal Register of September 6, 1984, which became effective November 12, 1984.
These regulations provide a procedure for filing complaints first at the local level, and then with the U.S. Department of Education. If a voluntary remedy fails, federal funds can be withdrawn from those in violation of the law. I respectfully ask you to send me a substantive response to this letter attaching a copy of your policy statement on procedures for parental permission requirements, to notify all my child's teachers, and to keep a copy of this letter in my child's permanent file.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Signed this ___________ Day of __________,199__ .
1. Letter reprinted from: How Good is Your School? by Sally D. Reed — National Council for Better Education, Capital Headquarters, Washington, D.C. 20070-0158. For legal help, contact the American Center For Law and Justice at ; You can reach the ACLJ by going to home and scrooling down to the American Center for Law and Justice.
WOW. Now THERE’S a law that has been COMPLETELY ignored by virtually every public school system in the country!