FERPA is far less protective than HIPAA-- and information that you provide to the school is automatically leaving the protection of the latter.

This is why I've not provided them with access to my child's physician(s), medical records (except specific questions to be asked of our providers), etc.

Need to know.

Then again-- once you enter IEP/504 territory, there's a secondary privacy issue involved in keeping a HIDDEN disability confidential, too.


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.