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The Poynter Center Seminar series is intended to foster community and intellectual stimulation among members of the IU community who want to maintain an ongoing relationship with the Poynter Center and each other. I argue that parental consent is overrated. I reject arguments for consent from dead children's interests, property rights, family autonomy, and religious freedom. I defend the claim that the only direct reason to get parental consent is to avoid distressing the parents, and I point out the radical implications for the consent process, secret harvesting of body parts, and the weight to be given to parental feelings. Educational research, by its very nature, focuses on data collected from a special set of human subjects - the students.