To not want to provide my DC nationality and country of birth to school?!

[SoDownSoGone]

What will the government do with the Country of Birth and Nationality?! AIBU to not provide this info?!

[lasagnefortea]

Is it a handwritten form? I'd put in a fictitious country and nationality, like all the people that put Jedi for their religion on the census

[SoDownSoGone]

Yes handwritten ridiculous.

[deplorabelle]

I just put "not supplied" as my entry

[PotteringAlong]

Why don't you want them to know?

[PhilODox]

You can just out "refused", no need to be arsey- it's not schools' fault they're asking.

[gallicgirl]

Don't then, just write refused or n/a

[NathanBarleyrocks]

Why not? I assume you won't mind getting into that school then?

[monkeysox]

Why would it be secret? Don't understand why you wouldn't tell anyone?

[WhirlwindHugs]

I thought the government changed their mind about this idea?

We decided we would refuse to give the info but school hasn't asked.

[MontePulciana]

Also don't understand the secrecy. The form might be classed incomplete and returned?

[NathanBarleyrocks]

To check whether they are eligible for free education here?

[c3pu]

"choose not to declare" is an acceptable response.

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

I don't understand why you don't want to say.

[SoupDragon]

I don't understand why anyone would have a problem with this.

[SoDownSoGone]

But why does the government need to know? What difference does it make where a child was born or what their nationality is? Once the government has this information what do they expect to do with it?

[NathanBarleyrocks]

To check whether they are eligible for free education here?

again

[MontePulciana]

So they can understand cultural differences or be sensitive and just aware. For example if you've just come from war torn area or somewhere interesting the class could talk about.

[Pestilence13610]

To check whether they are eligible for free education here?

yet again

complete with clicky link so you can check for yourself

[SoDownSoGone]

I refuse to supply this information. Next we'll all be wearing armbands.

[BitchPeas]

Why would you not? Surely it's pretty obvious most of the time. Why does it offend you?

[noblegiraffe]

The DfE said it was so that they could research educational outcomes for children of immigrants, but then it came out that it was in response to a Home Office request for schools to hand over immigrant data so that they could deprioritise school applications for children of illegal immigrants.

However it has now been agreed that this data won't be shared with the Home Office, because schools are not border guards.

schoolsweek.co.uk/dfe-had-agreement-to-share-pupil-nationality-data-with-home-office/

[Pestilence13610]

Do you also refuse to give your nationality to any NHS services you choose to use?

[Potnoodlewilld0]

Why would it offend you?

[SoDownSoGone]

It offends me because it's not relevant to my Childs education. I would want to know what the government intends to do with this data.

[wifework]

I just said, politely, I declined to answer.

I feel sure I have actually supplied this info elsewhere (like on the admissions paperwork) but this felt like a political act from the government to weed out illegal immigrants and removing EU children from our schools after Brexit. So I acted politically myself by saying fuck off. Politely.