Re: Are occurences of human tails reported to the parents, or simply removed?

Humans do not grow tails as they are regularly understood.  Any procedure 
of that sort performed on a child to remove tissue (as is commonly done 
with ear tags, other skin tags, or extra digits or remnants of extra 
digits) requires express consent from the child's caregivers.  That 
principle would apply to the typical college age student (it may have been 
different over 50 years ago, or outside the U.S.).  However, a defect in 
that area is a well known phenomenon in spina bifida occulta, when the 
usual closing of the cleft overlying our spinal column closes 
incompletely.  It would be a great question for your next regular doctor's 
visit (which college students could be much better at attending regularly).