<p>I am curious how most schools notify parents of grades b/c at one parent info session they mentioned that since the students are mostly 18 years old they aren’t allowed to notify the aprent’s of their grades- privacy etc… Is this accurate or correct-maybe I didn’t hear it correctly?</p>
<p>Colleges DO NOT notify parents of grades.</p>
<p>You are talking about college? No, colleges do not inform parents of a student’s grades. if you want to know you will have to arrange that with your child.</p>
<p>However privacy rules do not apparently extend to not telling parents about any money owed (Yes, I asked, albeit somewhat sarcastically).</p>
<p>As nysmile said, they aren’t.</p>
<p>Students aren’t “notified” of grades either. But they are given access to a website that allows them to check their grades after posting.</p>
<p>As a parent, you can ask the student to mail you a copy of the transcript or e-mail you a pdf file of the unofficial transcript / grade report.</p>
<p>Accurate, most colleges do not notify the parents. They’ll send you the bills, but that’s about it! Grades are generally posted on line these days and your student would have to give you the information. It’s possible some colleges have some system for parents but it would require the student to sign-off. By the way, your family doc’s office can’t talk to you about your 18 year old either unless they have signed paper releasing their information to you. Welcome to the world of having newly minuted “adults.”</p>
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<p>The cutoff age starts at 13 in Washington State.</p>
<p>Yes, Dr offices are supposed to refuse to talk to parents of adult children…
I’ve found much variance in this. Son handles most of his own calls to offices/pharmacies but once in a while he asks for some help with an office here at ‘home’ when he’s at school. Convenient when the office doesn’t seem to know about HIPPA…</p>
<p>By law (FERPA) colleges cannot disclose grades of students 18 and older to parents; however, students can give their school permission to release this information to their parents. At S’s school, a student can do this electronically from their student portal. They also offer a portal for parents (which the student must first also approve) and from there the parent can see the student’s grades if that has been approved by the student, as well as use it to pay tuition bills etc. But is up to the student to give this permission.</p>
<p>Thanks-that is what I thought so I guess if you kid is failing out they don’t notify you? what a bummer to be paying all those nice fat bills to them if your kid isn’t even attending class- not sure if it happens as much these days… Mine better not fail out!! she knows that she will be home at the jr college if it happens-HAHA!! I don’t think it will but I always hear that parents say if grades aren’t good -you are coming home!!I ahve a senior so i was just wondering.and yes I udnerstand about them being 18- all of her ecords are no longer visible on my insurance- claims/prescription claims-</p>
<p>If you are paying you can certainly make it a condition with her that she lets you see her grades.</p>
<p>hlsess, ask your student to tell you how they are doing after mid-terms. That is generally when the freshman kids have a pretty clear idea of how they are performing. Should be coming up here for most semester-college student in a few weeks.</p>
<p>Agree also, we did tell the kids they needed to share their final grades since we were financially supporting their privlege of being in college.</p>
<p>We have a “good student discount” on car insurance, so the kids have to give us access to their grades, unless they want to pay the difference.</p>
<p>"If you are paying you can certainly make it a condition with her that she lets you see her grades. "</p>
<p>If your student balks, don’t pay next semester’s bill until s/he shows you the official copy of the grades. This is how we learned that my older S, now 26, had a .038 average fall of his freshman year. </p>
<p>We never have had to threaten younger S to get him to show us his grades. He’s so happy with doing so much better than he has in high school, that he shows us his grades the minute he learns them. </p>
<p>It is a big red flag if a student refuses to show you their grades even though you’re helping to pay for their college.</p>
<p>If you have any gpa requirements for your financial support to continue, let your S know now. Don’t wait until you see bad grades at the end of the semester.</p>
<p>The way we are doing it with our college junior son, and how we plan to do it when our daughter goes to college, is that so long as we are paying their tuition, we get to have the password to log in and see their course schedule, grades and transcript. So far it has not been a problem.</p>
<p>You will not get the grades info unless your student signs a FERPA form giving you access to them. We told our kids…sign the FERPA form or YOU can deal with any billing issues that come from the Bursars Office. They had no interest in dealing with the bills…and both signed willingly.</p>
<p>I will say…we never looked at DD’s grades but she showed them to us.</p>
<p>When DS was at BU, he must have signed something because HIS grades were mailed to us “to the parents of DS”. We got them every term.</p>
<p>Our “deal” was clear…want us to pay the bill? Then you need to give us access to your transcripts.</p>
<p>S2’s first sem. in college was a disaster academically. Whenever we asked about grades he was very vague. We backed off and decided to let him handle it. When the grades came out, we were shocked at how bad they were (like Northstarmom’s S). </p>
<p>After that we told him that we wanted full access to his grades (Blackboard password) until he proved us that he didn’t need us checking up on him. We were not willing to keep paying if he didn’t do his part. He agreed. The following sem. I checked every couple of weeks. He made a huge turnaround that sem. I still have the password but don’t bother checking anymore.
He tells us now how he’s doing without our asking.</p>
<p>But the parent is forced to show their tax returns up until age 28 for law/medical school but is not allowed to see the grades. So for the purpose of “taxing” the parents 27 yo adults are considered dependent children. This is complete nonsense that allows the schools to have overpriced tuition costs.</p>
<p>Say…you can ask your med school/law school students to give you access to the grades too. They can give anyone the access. If you are contributing financially or feel you deserve to see them because you have to provide your tax returns and give financial info…ask your kids for access.</p>
<p>No different than for undergrads…we also had to give all of our tax info…and we did. Kids gave us access.</p>
<p>You are missing the point. Why are parents of 27 yo being asked to pay tuition for adults? Because otherwise the prices would have to be much lower and reflect the actual costs. The cost of undergrad education that directly goes to teaching is less than 5k per student. All the rest goes for contructuion, research, and other “costs”. This increase intuition is worse than healthcare inflation and simply can not go on much longer. The simple fact is that most hs students get little benefit from college because they are not able to do true college level work. In some ways college has become a sort of high priced scam that will come crashing down unless the system is changed. At the current rate of tuition inflation even people making over 300k will soon not be able to send two children to college and grad school. The college administrations are going to kill the golden goose.</p>
<p>My son’s school set up separate parent account online. Student had to approve the account. The parent account showed final transcript and billing information only. Worked pretty well for us. I couldn’t see grades throughout the semester and didn’t see whether funds were spent on the swiper card at two am…just the final transcript and the total bill for each semester. They recommended and I agreed that parent should NOT have access to student account which gives much more detail.</p>