Is Parental Notification required?
Districts taking part in The Texas School Survey of Drug and Alcohol Use are required to notify parents of the survey and its general contents prior to survey administration. This notification MUST include the “Information Sheet” that has been provided Ideally, these forms should be mailed to parents to ensure proper dissemination, but it is up to each district to decide how such matters are to be handled. The Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects at Texas A&M University has waived the requirement to document parental assent/consent, but does require that the “Information Sheet” be distributed to parents and that the students are read the information in the classroom informing them that participation is completely voluntary. Either the parents of students or the students themselves have every right to NOT participate in the Texas School Survey. Each participating district is responsible for having a mechanism in place to accommodate those requests not to participate coming from
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