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Principal drops meeting demand

A member family in Chariho called Home School Legal Defense Association after they received a letter from the principal of Ashaway Elementary School. The principal wrote that she was "required" to meet with the family to review their child's academic progress.

Neither Rhode Island law nor the Chariho school district's own policy requires families to meet with school officials. We advised the family to tell the principal that they did not wish to participate in a meeting. The principal subsequently dropped her demand.

A child's progress can easily be established without a meeting. Meetings are inconvenient, may create an opportunity for families to be harassed or intimidated, and can result in school officials obtaining information to which they are not entitled.

— by Scott A. Woodruff