Children in the US are basically the property of their parents.
Parents can deny their children an education (essentially unsupervised homeschool is entirely legal in many states), refuse to vaccinate, refuse medical treatment, etc.
Closest we had in public school in Kentucky was a form sent home at the beginning of each year that your parents would sign, stating whether or not the school was allowed to use “corporal punishment” (aka spanking or paddling) on you.
But yeah, parents in some (all?) states in the USA have wide latitude over their kids in ways I don’t agree with.
The worst that I ever had to put up with was a teacher that liked it through pieces of chalk its people who were talking in class, and he aimed to miss.
A parent can sign a paper voiding the rights for their child?
How can this be legal, even with a paper with a name on it?
Children in the US are basically the property of their parents.
Parents can deny their children an education (essentially unsupervised homeschool is entirely legal in many states), refuse to vaccinate, refuse medical treatment, etc.
Closest we had in public school in Kentucky was a form sent home at the beginning of each year that your parents would sign, stating whether or not the school was allowed to use “corporal punishment” (aka spanking or paddling) on you.
But yeah, parents in some (all?) states in the USA have wide latitude over their kids in ways I don’t agree with.
The worst that I ever had to put up with was a teacher that liked it through pieces of chalk its people who were talking in class, and he aimed to miss.