FERPA (Academic Privacy) Question

missypie
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:41:18 +0000

We do that, but the class he failed over the summer didn’t have a syllabus. He asked and the teacher said that students never look at them anyway. We made him email the teacher twice to ask about his grade. The first response was “B”. The second response was “I don’t know.”



I have a feeling that he will get some positive feedback because I do believe that most people in the teaching profession want to see students make it.



They want the engaging kids to make it. They want the attractive, witty kids to make it. The overweight boy who comes to class and sits down and doesn’t make eye contact with anyone…they don’t even know he’s there, much less care if he makes it. I totally “get” why teachers don’t warm to autistic students … the vast majority of the citizens of the world don’t warm to autistic people…but I still think he deserves to be able to earn a college degree.