Unbelievable! My gosh next the public school district will be asking what position the child was conceived in?! UGH! This is happening in CALIFORNIA USA! It's none of their damn business! That is private information and has absolutely NOTHING to do with education! I'm glad these parents spoke up and exposed this nonsense to the media so that the rest of us could be made aware. Our government will continue to get away with this kind of crap as long as we remain silent. That's what they're counting on!
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Daily Mail UK
written by Paul ThompsonMonday June 6, 2011
School chiefs in California have come under fire for asking intimate questions about how its children were delivered during birth.
Parents hoping to enrol their children in the Dry Creek School District have to complete an application form that asks if their child was delivered naturally or by caesarean section.
Those mothers who tick the 'C-section' option are then asked to explain why the procedure was performed.
But parents in Roseville, California, who were presented with the form as they tried to enrol their children in school say the intimate questions are a breach of privacy.
'I really don’t feel think the school asking if the child was delivered vaginally or by C-Section is appropriate,' a mother of two identified as Heather told the local CBS13 station.
'What’s next? This is an invasion of our privacy,' she said.
Heather said she had asked the school to explain their reasoning behind the invasive questions, but had yet to receive a reply.
She said the invasive questions were not relevant to getting her children enrolled at school.
School chiefs were also contacted by a reporter from CBS13, but no reply was forthcoming.
The question on the enrolment form asks parents to say whether their child was born by C-section.
A number of scientific studies in medical journals have concluded that the method of birth delivery cannot be linked to intelligence.
Cesarean deliveries have reached an all-time high in the U.S., with nearly one in three babies now delivered by C-section compared to one in five just a decade ago, according to the latest government figures.
Almost 1.4 million newborns were delivered surgically in 2007 -- a 53% increase from the mid-1990s, when rates started to climb after remaining steady for several years.
Rates rose for both older and younger mothers across all racial groups and all regions of the U.S., making cesarean delivery the most commonly performed surgery in the nation.
The C-section rate increased by annually between 1996 and 2007, from a low of 21% to 32%.
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