Step Talk

I believe it should be in your court papers. Ours state that the school is supposed to send stuff to the BM and she has no custody rights, but they are supposed to send stuff to her. She has no contacted the school to do so, so we don't volunteer any information and I attribute it to her own fault if she wants to know something. However, it should be in your court papers and if it is and you take a copy of that to the school they have to abide by it. At least that's my understanding
Dawn

I did A LOT of research on this for my DH. If you request it, they are required BY LAW to copy you on anything that goes home. They may request that you pay them for postage, but they can't deny it. The only way they can deny it is if there is a court order preventing them from giving it to you.

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ourselves to the school contact list. The court order says that BM should share everything with DH but she never once did that. So we went to school met with the counselors and the parent -teacher liaison and they said that they will mail everything to us as well.

Not a private school, which is not supported by tax/public dollars. The government cannot mandate anything to a private school.

I remain, the world's most evil stepmom; ask anyone.

no public tax support means no way to enforce government mandates. Like, if your school district decrees that all students were khaki pants and blue shirts, the local Christian school does not have to change its uniform to comply. And private schools are not required to implement state testing; they use their own. Now why the school where guinessgirl's skids go would have a problem giving their dad school info and grades, I don't know, unless it's just because, as she said, several of them are close to BM and it's a spite thing.

I remain, the world's most evil stepmom; ask anyone.

I live in MD and I am having the same problem with the public school. My lawyer advised me to keep in contact with the school myself for my SD. She stated it would be a waste of money to attempt to get the court to enforce this issue. BF custody papers didn't specify anything about keeping him informed. It was just understood with "joint custody". We have logged onto the local school website and now receive email notifications of school events and we email the teacher weekly. We also provided self addressed stamped envelopes for the teacher to mail copies of papers as needed. A "Daddy Folder" was also provided for the teacher to send home papers on specific days of the week when my SD is with us.
I hope this helps you.

Court orders need to be honored. Period. Whether it's a private school or not it needs to comply with the basic laws of the state. So because it's a private school, they don't have to follow a court order? That's ludacris. I'm sure there are certain aspects of state law they don't have to follow like curriculum and testing, but I'm sure that legal and domestic matters (criminal and court orders) is a different story. If I'm wrong, it bs and I, too, would seek legal counsel.

I will again suggest to dh that he do what he said he was going to do and march down there with the divorce papers and tell them that the children legally reside at two places and both need to get all information....
May the force be with you..

Their Cirriculum and Standards have to pass State and Federal Standards to be Accredited. I went to a private school, and transfered back to Public School twice. The Public school would only accept the Accredited Coursework. Even Home Schooling has to follow an Accredited Cirriculum, to be Granted a Diploma, and Graduation Level Finals are conducted by a Proctor form the School District, at least in NY, Md and PA, the States I have Experience with, and have a Freind who is a PA Teacher, and was The State Ed. Liason for The Autistic Education Contracted Agency.

Steve

Kids are the Best and Worst Things We can do to Ourselves. When We have nothing else worth living for, We'll go on, for Them, but Oh How We Miss Our Freedom...LOL