Re: Helping a teacher

[Judi Hirsch <judih@OUSD.K12.CA.US>]

more than frightening, it seems kinda stoopid.
Judi
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From: Glenn <glenn@PEEDEEWORLD.NET>
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Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: Helping a teacher


> > 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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