If I remember correctly (just to clarify) FERPA only allows “catalog information” to be released unless it is to the subject of those documents (I’m a security consultant, and had to deal with this kind of issue in an unpleasant situation once). So yes, you can get your data, but other data (parental income, SSN, etc) are not discoverable. Catalog information includes name, address, phone number, and one or two other things that escape my memory.
There are, of course, exceptions (security clearances for the government, criminal violations, etc)
Again, my memory may not be the strongest on this point.
Perhaps a nitpick, but in my consulting days I found that healthcare was the worst industry in terms of information security, followed by government (that’s all levels of government, not just Federal - local yokels can be dumbtarded). The desire to retain records reminds me of that old adage - you don’t know what you’ve lost 'til it’s gone. For intel and other purposes, it’s a good rule of thumb, but for the private (and education) sector, it’s hogwash.
Are you the same idiot you were when you were 17? I’m not. I’m a completely new breed of idiot. :smack:
I was a School prefect. One day the Administrator came to me and told me to assist her by supervising the movement of school records to a storage. While doing so I picked up a ferw files, some were from the late 1800. I found mine as well (not to be moved) and it hadeverything, report cards, diciplinary notice, sickness applications my mother send from 10 years earlier etc etc.
Whew! But the school transcript was just a summery of my grades.
Last year, I attempted to order a copy of my disciplinary record from the public school districts I attended as a child. Both jurisdictions told me that disciplinary records are purged five years after the child leaves, which means that they could not give me a copy since I left public school in the 1990’s, and thus the records I was seeking were destroyed years ago.
I can still get a high school transcript with grades.
I would agree with the healthcare-info bit. I have been involved with tossing med records numerous times from both large hospitals and small private offices. What I was told by Admin (who had been advised by lawyers, etc) that my guidleines as far as ‘trash’ went were ~ :Anything older than five years is gone with a few hospitals choosing to extend to 10 years if storage-space was aplenty. A few exceptions were if its a minor/juvenile (save until five years after they turn 18 or 21, varied by place/State), EKG’s, and mammograms. Anything else became shred-destined basically. Digital records can be kept much longer due to ease of storage, but paper records take up huge amounts of room and few things are purely digital (but its swinging that direction), so getting rid of them was a cost-cutting measure. The X-ray film was/is sent for silver recovery and could bring decent cash. I have held hundreds of silver 'ingots (back in the days) that resulted from barrels of old film being ‘purged’, but I don’t think ingots/bars are given nowadays - just a check for the value.
I would so love to see my ‘permanent record’ as I was quite the hellion-child who somehow avoided any documented trouble. I always chuckled whenever I heard the term permanent record and never had any worry.
Now THAT needs to go on your resume, or better yet in full color in the PDF of your resume, available online.
But as a Graphic Design teacher, I tell my students the truth that their HS and other college teachers didn’t: no one really cares.
No one’s going to look at your portfolio and see a brilliant solution to a problem and say “Now, what grade did you get in that class?”
I’m so happy to be in a field where all they care about is what you can DO. You can be tatted and pierced and Arab/Swiss/Hmong and a Rastafarian Rosicrucian who had spitball fights on his “permanent record”… ok with us. Show us some good work.
How would an academic integrity referral effect my life from here on out? even if it was only a quiz that i cheated on? what about colleges, will they see that, since my teacher hated me enough to report it? does it make a difference if i’m in a college prep school?
All the colleges are likely to get is your academic transcript and the recommendations from the teachers you send in. So the only way this could affect you is through your grade in that course, if it is truly bad some schools give F’s with a special note of academic dishonesty. Or if your reputation was so tarnished among the faculty of the school that you couldn’t find a few teachers who wouldn’t feel obligated to mention it if you asked them to write a recommendation.
Now resurrecting a zombie thread started 2 1/2 years ago… That will go on your permanent record.
