That's just the natural tension between the enlightened and modern open information world, in which all information is available to everyone at all times, and the archaic feudal privacy system in which information asymmetry is weaponized and information is hoarded by those who want to prevent the spread of knowledge and human development.
While that may be true, who is on which side? The lived experience of the family in
these articles seems to suggest that governmental collection of data is weaponized and information is hoarded by those who want to commercialize the data, charging parents exorbitant fees to see what is in their child's file, and/or correct any inaccuracies. At the prices which parents are being charged to see their child's data, some may say the collected data is being held for ransom.
Some may say the collection of data is also being conducted in a less than transparent manner. This is not the first time on this forum that a parent's post indicated lack of awareness of a
permanent school record for kids.
Without true and accurate data, there is false or distorted knowledge which does not benefit human development for the individual about whom the data is collected, nor society at large, but may benefit meglomania. Meanwhile the image one receives from distorted data may be akin to a reflection in a fun-house mirror.
Without regard to need for advocacy, etc, some of these back-office elements of public education may cause some parents to not love their child's school.
