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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the ARN-L list, send command SIGNOFF ARN-L to LISTSERV@LISTS.CUA.EDU.
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