Same in California. Both my kids finished at over 18, and notes went to them. When I was on site council, the principal said that it was fairly common for parents to kick their kids out at 18, which didn’t exactly help them finish. As I understand it, at 18 they are adults and emancipated, and sending stuff home to parents is a violation of their privacy.
Have your colleage call and advise the school that there has been a change in his contact/work phone number. Give school daughters and or daughters boyfriends phone numbers.
I’m pretty sure I had to give my college permission to contact my parents or to send them my grades. I thought there was some federal privacy law that mandated this. Does it not apply to high schools? Could the daughter go to the school and say that she no longer wants her mother contacted?
After I turned 18, I remember I still needed my mother’s permission to go home sick from school. So rather than allowing me to sign myself out sick, I’d have to sit in the nurse’s office waiting until I could get a hold of her.
Again, in Ontario, my son was considered an adult at 18, with all the rights and responsibilities. He showed me all (most of?) his stuff because he wanted to, not because he had to,
I had the reverse situation, I was in college at 15 and my mother died when I was 16. My father died when I was 11, so the college would want to contact my mother
It was frustrating till I said “I made an error I’m 18.” They changed the birth date and that ended everything. Of course that was 1981 and no one cared much about accuracy.
At 18 you are held 100% responsible for all your acts, so there is no need for the high school to treat you like a child, since in the eyes of the law you’re not. I bet if you raised a stink the school would knuckle under.
I went to high school in Ontario back in the 1970s, and I was another 18-year-old who wrote his own notes, signed his own report cards, and so on. If my parents knew how/what I was doing at school, it was because I told them.
I went to high school in Ontario in the 1970s as well. I didn’t like my final high school, so I didn’t bother with the 13th year and instead went off to university before hitting 18, however, in grade 10 I sent out a great many report cards to my friend’s parents for the parents to sign and return to the school. I did my best to customize each report card, but more often than not put down comments such as “Doug is trying . . . very trying.” It caused a bit of a stink, to say the least. And no, no one ever figured out at the time that I was the one who did it.
Heh. I didn’t mention my high school years (68-72) because, like Muffin, I passed on grade thirteen and went to college at age 17. But I went to an experimental school where we were allowed to write our own notes and sign ourselves out from grade 10! We also didn’t have ANY exams. 
That experiment ended a year after I left, for good reason.
Incorrect. And prefacing it with “let’s face it,” don’t make it so. At 18, you are mentally and emotionally an adult. Before that, even.
That’s right, you wacky Ontarians have 13 grades instead of 12. :smack: If your age a majority is only 18 and most students graduate at 19 then high schools would be dealing with adult students for a longer time than those south of the border (or east or west of the border).
Actually, Ontario has switched to 4 years in high school like the rest of the world. Students starting in 1999 and later did four years.
Four years?
IME it’s only three. Grade nine is junior high, then you have a ‘graduation’ (at least my school did) before moving on to the high school for ten, eleven and twelve, which was located elsewhere.