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Our child is enrolled in Agora cyber charter public school in Pennsylvania. To follow the school procedure, we are required to to visit at least ten contractors' sites (to supplement curriculum, to fill out forms, to submit work for grading…) In order to access each contractor’s materials and resources, families must give consent or sign contract with the respective contractor. Some of these sites reserve unconditional, "world-wide, perpetual, royalty free and non-exclusive” rights to our information. Others, do not have a definite scope; what appears as lay language to us may have unlimited scope of use to these third-party vendors, private for-profit companies. Our consent would represent a waiver of our privacy laws protections, state and federal, including FERPA. This would allow the school contractors to use the info from the student education record, the content of all ongoing school submissions, reprimands, special needs ... and [using IP, names, DOB ... identifiers from the student records] to cross-reference and compile with non-school online activity, and info from the public domain FOR EACH ENROLLED STUDENT/FAMILY. Entitlement to education is a property right in Pennsylvania.