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- Path: sparky!uunet!computer-privacy-request
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 15:58:58 -0700
- From: Doug Thompson <norsk@mobius.mobius.provo.novell.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
- Subject: Re: Schools and SSN
- Message-ID: <comp-privacy1.116.3@pica.army.mil>
- Organization: Computer Privacy Digest
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- In article <comp-privacy1.114.4@pica.army.mil>, bjwhitlock@vnet.ibm.com (Brad Whitlock) writes:
- > And by the way, do you demand to see the original SSA-issue SSN card?
-
- Alabama recently (last 2 years) began requiring SSN's for all students
- entering school. No SSN, no school.
-
- What's even worse, is they simply REFUSE to accept the number by itself, they
- require the actual SSA-issued card. My sister was a week late starting school
- because they wouldn't let her in the doors without a SSA-issue card. It
- took a week to get a new one made, we had lost the original from when she
- was born.
-
-
- After moving here to utah, my primary school sent home 3 forms
- one for each child in that school asking for SSN. After sending a
- reply letter stating my reasons for NOT providing the numbers
- I went a spoke with the clerk about how it was received.
-
- She said, it was okay, but cause more clerical work to generate
- a new number. As they knew that each child already had a number
- the SSN became the default. I've been trying for the last year,
- since becoming familiar with the SSN problem, of shielding my
- kids numbers.
-
- [Moderator's Note: What do they do if parents refuse to give the
- SSN? It seems to me the best way for parents who want teach their kids
- on their own to get around all the legal requirements that one must go
- through in order not to send kids to school. ._dennis ]
-
- PS Utah also requires SSN for drivers licences :-(
-
-