Re: Helping a teacher

[Michelle Trusty-Murphy <5alive@PYRAMID.NET>]

Teresa,

FERPA specifically disallows the use specific personal information, or the use
of cross-referenced information on children taking tests unless the parents
have agreed to the test in writing.  It seems that NC needs to get specific
permission to give their tests from each and every parent if they are requiring
social security numbers on those tests!!

Michelle

Glenn wrote:

> > I'd be leery of anything that used test scores and sent them to
> businesses,
> > too
> >
>
> I'll tell you what bothers me: the kids have to put their social security
> numbers on the tests... the SSNs are also their student ID numbers.  I can
> pull up grades,  attendance, office referrals, suspensions, test scores,
> EVERYTHING based on their SSNs.
>
> I refused to give the school system my daughters SSN this year when I
> registered her for kindergarten.  I just don't want her entire school career
> connected to a number that only an employer should have.  I got the royal
> run around and had to talk to numerous different people-- I was told her
> future teachers might see her as an "illegal alien" because her student ID
> wasn't her SSN, I was told that I'd HAVE to give it later... and on and on.
>
> I'm VERY leery of school systems having this kind of information-- I know it
> supposedly makes it "easier" on them to have a  unique identifier, but
> businesses will also have legitimate access to this number when kids go to
> work... it's a frightening and Orwellian thought that some company somewhere
> could track my daughter's kindergarten records.
>
> Teresa Glenn
>
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