<p>EK4: Yes, you’re right (as you so often are). </p>
<p>'FERPA gives parents certain rights with respect to their children’s education records. These rights transfer to the student when he or she reaches the age of 18 or attends a school beyond the high school level. Students to whom the rights have transferred are “eligible students.” '</p>
<p>from the FERPA web site: <a href=“http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html[/url]”>http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html</a></p>
<p>Incidentally, notice that “transfers to student … school beyond high school.” That means that even my then-16-year-old MIT freshman (now 18, thank heavens) didn’t have to show me his grades. I <em>did</em>, however, have to sign releases for sports and so on.</p>