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So I used the help text for the question above.  It's seems to be working fine.  Also I didnt realize that age groups was a default question on the student registration form too. Can I please have that not required as well?

I did notice that this is the only "Long Text" field on all of our forms.  So that may be the issue.  I tried to create another one to see if it was just a bug with just that one question and the new long text question did the same thing.  So definitely a bug with just long text questions at this point.