She Shared The Strangely Detailed And “Weird” Questions Asked On Her Teen Daughter’s Medical Paperwork For School
If you’re a parent with a kid in public school, you’ve probably had to fill out paperwork to inform the school and school nurses about their basic health information.
This paperwork usually inquires about your child’s age, if they have any allergies, on any medications, etc. The information is fairly basic and can be used in an emergency.
However, some schools are apparently requiring much more specific and personal health information from parents.
One TikTok user recently went viral after sharing the suspiciously detailed questions listed on her teenage daughter’s medical paperwork for school. Lauren had already filled out health forms at the beginning of her daughter’s school year but was unexpectedly given more paperwork in the middle of the year.
“My 13-year-old daughter just brought home this student health questionnaire that the school nurse gave to everybody apparently and needed back immediately,” says Lauren (@lauren1xoxo), a mom and TikTok user, at the beginning of her viral video.
“But I need you to help me figure out if it’s weird or not because it seems weird to me.”
Lauren begins reading from the questionnaire, which starts with fairly basic questions, asking if her child has any allergies, diseases, or disorders the school should know about. But then, it quickly starts to get weird.
An entire section of the questionnaire included questions about Lauren’s pregnancy and her daughter’s birth. It asked if Lauren had a healthy pregnancy, how her daughter was delivered, if there were any complications during her birth, etc. The questionnaire went as far as to ask how long Lauren was pregnant with her daughter, what week of pregnancy she was born, etc.
Then, the questionnaire wanted to know all the details about her daughter’s development as an infant: when she sat up for the first time, when she said her first word, as well as when she crawled and walked for the first time.
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“Why are you asking this?” asks Lauren.
“She’s 13, almost 14, it’s halfway through the year [and] she hasn’t signed up for any sports or clubs, P.E., or anything like that [which] would warrant a new health questionnaire.”
Lauren then said she couldn’t understand why her daughter’s school needed this information about her teenager. The questions about her pregnancy and delivery process were especially jarring.
Lauren mentions how she could potentially understand the school’s need to know this information when her daughter was a young kindergartener, but to be asked these questions when her daughter is a teenager is super weird.
“Why do you need to know about my teenager’s infancy and toddlerhood?” asks Lauren.
“It just makes no sense to me.”
Lauren ends her video by asking her viewers if they have ever received any paperwork like that from their children’s schools.
Her video went extremely viral, with over 808,000 likes and thousands of comments from disturbed viewers.
“It’s giving ‘Handmaid’s Tale,'” commented one TikTok user.
“I would refuse to answer all of that beyond basic information,” commented another TikTok user.
“Health information should be kept between your family and your doctors.”
Lauren responded to that comment, writing that she would not be filling out any of that unnecessary information on the form.
How would you feel if your child’s school asked for that information?
@lauren1xoxo Why do they need to know all of this? I’m baffled… #momsoftiktok #school #health #question #weird #pregnancy #birth #teachersoftiktok #nurse #why #viral #fyp #foryou #foryoupage #fyp?
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