Stuck.

That crap yesterday just has had me stuck all day today.  I finally finished the email to send to the schools, and just hit send.  This is what I said.  I hope somebody listens.



The other day I pulled the New Student Registration form from the
Public Schools website, in order to register my youngest
daughter for Kindergarten. I was half way through completing the
first page of the form, when I came to the section that asks for the
parent information.


I am stunned that in 2011, it is possible for you to still have "Birth
Mother" and "Birth Father" listed on this form.

Families are created in many ways. They come as Grandparents
parenting children, Step-parents parenting children, Adoptive and/or
Foster parents parenting their children.


It is offensive and invasive, to many families, to have this language
on the form.

I am my daughter's Mother. My husband is her Father. We did adopt
our youngest child, not that that is anyones business but our own.

There are many same sex couples that will be registering their
children for school. In case you didn't realize it, the State of Iowa
made it legal for these couples to legally marry in Iowa on April 3,
2009. It is legal for them to adopt, and for them to give birth to
their own biological children, yet when they register their children
for school there is not a space for each parent to put their
own names down for their child.


I would like to see the form changed to say, "Parent" or "Guardian."
I can't possibly be the only parent who has noticed this issue.


Please give changing the form some consideration.


Sincerely,

Kelly Monkeysoup


I guess we'll see what happens.  In the mean time, I'm going to do what Rockygrace suggested and cross out the "Birth" on the form.  Leave it as Mother's Full Name and Father's Full Name, for now, until they change the form.