As Texas prepares to hand out DNA kits to schoolchildren to bring home to parents, other concerned caregivers are weighing in on the issue of DNA kits for kids — and what it says about society.

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Rosenfeld said the center had allocated an initial $40,000 for the DNA kits in this beginning pilot effort and expects to spend as much as $100,000 on them in the program’s first year.

Texas is sending nearly 4 million DNA test kits to the parents of public school children so law enforcement can identify bodies in case of a mass shooting, Houston TV station ABC 13 reports.

Parents have been able to request “fingerprint and DNA identification kits” from Texas schools since before Uvalde as part of a program to help find missing kids.

Kids are getting a better understanding about their DNA – like why they have a certain hair color and even their ancestry. It’s all thanks to a camp at Sanford.

The DNA kits, which are not mandatory and kept at the child’s home, were first made available to parents in fall 2021 to help identify missing children.