School Officials Debate Student Medical Privacy

School district officials are set to decide today whether students have the right to leave school to go to doctor’s appointments even if their parents don’t know.

In heated debates over the last several months, Roseville Joint Union School District trustees have discussed a policy concerning students’ medical privacy rights. At today’s meeting, district trustees will weigh the opinions of lawyers on both sides of the argument.

District lawyers have advised them to let seventh-through- 12th-graders attend confidential medical appointments without the school notifying the parents.