PEEKSKILL, N.Y. – Parents of a New York high school student are suing the Peekskill School District after a school psychologist and his wife allegedly took their daughter to an off-campus health clinic to obtain birth control pills.

Anthony and Eva Jackson filed a lawsuit May 30 in New York Supreme Court alleging Peekskill High School psychologist James Tosto and his wife, Dawn Tosto, took their daughter to Dawn’s employer at the Hudson River Community Health Center, where the teen was examined without her parents’ consent and prescribed birth control pills, LoHud.com reports.

Anthony Jackson is an elementary teacher and girls volleyball coach in the Peekskill School District who is currently on leave from Woodside Elementary School. School district officials and the Hudson Valley Community Health Center would not discuss the lawsuit with the media.

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In New York, minors do not need parental consent to seek birth control from a health clinic on their own, but schools must obtain parental consent to provide health services or treatment.

“The Jacksons are filing the suit ‘on behalf of all other parents whose children were subject to physical examinations’ and ‘given access to and/or distributed birth control without the parents knowledge, consent or opportunity to opt out …,’ court papers say,” according to LoHud.com.

The Jacksons said their daughter, who was 16 years old at the time, took birth control pills for several days before they found out.

The backstabbing actions of school officials should come as a wake-up call to parents across the country to track how their children interact with school officials. Information about sexual activity and pregnancy provided by school counselors or teachers would likely shock many parents who strive to instill sexual modesty in their children.

In Peekskill, James Tosto’s alleged actions could be viewed as school-sponsored encouragement of sexual activity on an impressionable 16-year-old girl. Whether well-meaning or not, it serves as the latest example of school officials who are more than comfortable with circumventing and undermining parents.

The case is a disgusting example of the “we know better than parents” mentality of officials in far too many public schools.

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“The rights of parents do not end when their daughter walks through the schoolhouse door,” the Jacksons’ attorney, Mary Marzolla, told the news site. “New York and federal laws provide protection to the Jackson family from those who violate these important civil rights.”

“The Jacksons, who claim they had no opportunity to opt out, are demanding compensatory and punitive damages along with attorneys’ fees against all of the defendants,” LoHud.com reports.