The right to consent or withhold consent for participation in reproductive health and safety education programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right to seek a medical or religious exemption from immunization requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right to review statewide standardized assessment results as part of the State report card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right to request an evaluation of their child for an academically or intellectually gifted program, or for identification as a child with a disability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right to inspect and purchase public school unit textbooks and other supplementary instructional materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right to access information relating to the unit’s policies for promotion or retention, including high school graduation requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right to receive student report cards on a regular basis that clearly depict and grade the student’s academic performance in each class or course, the student’s conduct, and the student’s attendance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right to access information relating to the State public education system, State standards, report card requirements, attendance requirements, and textbook requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right to participate in parent-teacher organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right to opt out of certain data collection for their child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right for students to participate in protected student information surveys only with parental consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The right to review all available records of materials their child has borrowed from a school library.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In addition, there are a series of notification requirements on physical and mental health listed in the bill. They include notifications to parents “of changes in services or monitoring related to his or her child’s mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being” and “prior to any changes in the name or pronoun used for a student in school records or by school personnel.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is an exception to these provisions “when a reasonably prudent person would believe that disclosure would result in the child becoming an abused juvenile or neglected juvenile, as those terms are defined in G.S. 7B-101,” according to the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill also says “an employee of the State who encourages, coerces, or attempts to encourage or coerce a child to withhold information from his or her parent may be subject to disciplinary action.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the legislation, any instruction on gender identity, sexual activity, or sexuality is prohibited in the curriculum for kindergarten through fourth grade. According to the bill, this does not include “responses to student-initiated questions.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n