The most important thing I learned when my kids were in elementary school is that no one cares about your elementary school grades. Really, no one at all.
This may have been true at a given point in time, however parents may want to be aware that from preschool on, US public school student data is now collected and stored in
permanent government databases.
Although one of the requirements is "
auditing data for quality, validity, and reliability" and although
FERPA guarantees parental right to access minor students' records, parents may find it difficult, expensive, and/or impossible to obtain their children's data and check it for errors:
1.
Price for Nevada dad to see state's school files on his kids: $10G2.
Dad told seeing state's records on his kids will cost him $10 grand+Roundup on data collection
here.
