S.F.A.C.A.
SCHOOL FOR ALL
CHILDREN ACT
National Chapter
FAQs

    What are the major forms of educational neglect?

    The top five forms of educational neglect are:  A) Not providing age
    appropriate medically accurate sex education information to children, which
    is a punishable crime under most state's laws; B) The extremely relaxed
    laws of home school that allow parents to legally escape their responsibility
    to provide an education for their children; C) Children that find themselves
    placed in a detention center or in boot camp and are denied an education
    during their incarceration; D) Children that are expelled from school and
    then expelled from alternative schools often find themselves not being able
    to get an education; and E) Children who are legal citizens in this country but
    their parents or legal guardians are not citizens, and in fact reside in this
    country illegally, are often unable to enroll in school due to their parents or
    legal guardians legal status.


    Child abuse and neglect are defined by Federal and State laws. The Child
    Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) is the Federal legislation
    that provides minimum standards that States must incorporate in their
    statutory definitions of child abuse and neglect. The CAPTA definition of
    "child abuse and neglect" refers to:

    "Any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker, which
    results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse, or
    exploitation, or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of
    serious harm." -42 U.S.C.A. § 5106g(2) (West Supp. 1998)
"Education should
be a right, not a
war."