EP Schools Continues to Ignore State Law
This is the second year that I've received a letter from EP Schools that reads:
"You and your child are invited to participate in an Early Childhood Health and Developmental Screening. A one time screening is mandated for all children (ages 3 to 5) by the state of Minnesota, this your child is required to be screened once before kindergarten entrance."
Bold letters are the schools, not mine. I called EP Schools and pointed out, (for the second year in a row,) that their letter is wrong.
State law requires children attending government schools to be screened, not those attending private schools nor those who are home-schooled. There is nothing in the letter that points out this fact.
State statute also reads:
The board must inform each resident family with a child eligible to participate in the developmental screening program about the availability of the program and the state's requirement that a child receive a developmental screening or provide health records indicating that the child received a comparable developmental screening from a public or private health care organization or individual health care provider not later than 30 days after the first day of attending kindergarten in a public school. A school district must inform all resident families with eligible children under age seven that their children may receive a developmental screening conducted either by the school district or by a public or private health care organization or individual health care provider and that the screening is not required if a statement signed by the child's parent or guardian is submitted to the administrator or other person having general control and supervision of the school that the child has not been screened.
What is the rationale for not following State law? These aren't "rules" or "guidelines"....these are laws. How many parents use the resources of the schools- when they don't need to? Will anybody take action to correct this huge oversight?