Re: [Phys-L] Private schools

[Marty Weiss <martweiss@comcast.net>]

They started this back when my son was in school... Now, mind you, my son was a very conscientious student and always gave us his transcript, but still I did a Bill Crosby:  "I put you into this school, I can take you out."  haha
(We all got along just fine and I'm sure he would have given us his grades anyway... I always liked that quote from Cosby and just had to misappropriate it.)  

On Jul 12, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Dr Holly Priestley wrote:

> > Which reminds me - I heard something surprising about what parents are told
> when their offspring sign up for on campus residential accommodation at a
> > Texas A&M school:
>
> > If you have co signed as guaranteeing your child's  room, that offers you
> no privileges in hearing  about student misdeeds or progress. We are not
> allowed to >share matters of this kind,  or even that you son is about to be
> expelled....
>
> This is the Family Educational Right to Privacy Act (Buckley Amendment) 20
> USC S. 1232g.  While teaching HS I had to make sure that if parents were
> divorced that the parent that came in had custody of the student - same with
> giving grades to parent.  It keeps college parents from knowing their
> child's grades, etc., once they are older than 18.  I presume that this is
> what you are talking about.
>
> Holly Priestley
>
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