Fact is…FERPA is dealt with differently at different colleges.
One of my kids…their school required them to opt OUT if they didn’t want parents having access to their college info. IOW, parents had access unless the kid opted out of that
Second kid…the school required kids to opt IN. IOW kid had to check each place where parents could have access. Otherwise…parents had no access.
In both cases, our kids were more than happy to allow us access to the bursars account office. They in no way wanted to deal with billing issues…and both had them.
We had absolutely no need to have access to all class grades etc. But we did expect that our kids would show us their grades each term…which they did. Adding that one school mailed the grades “to the parents of Thumperson”. The other school sent them “to Thumpergirl”.
@Julie_Hofmann if this screen name is your real name, I would urge you to change it asap. Here is how: