Arguments Against FERPA
Jenna Vanderpool
Mr. O’Connor
AP English Literature
12 January 2015
FERPA: Flaws in Educational Regulations for Political Alleviation Privacy plays a major role in every aspect of life from professional to personal. Our lives should not be displayed for everyone to see unless we give the say so. Schools and other educational institutions promote this right to students through the federal law of Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, FERPA. But FERPA is not always the best avenue to follow when the law is continuously being altered. According to the political blog Crazy Crawfish, “Congress has amended FERPA a total of nine times in the nearly 28 years since its enactment” (“FERPA Does Not Protect Student Privacy”). As a result, the school board of an Alabama school received a collection of hate from parents after passing a policy that correlated with President Obama’s changes to FERPA in December of 2011. According to the article, “the policy supposedly protects student privacy while it also allows the collection, data-mining and sharing of private, non-academic information on students without parental permission” (“Alabama School Board Passes Policy”).
President of the Alabama Federation of Republican Women, Elois Zeanah, looked deeper …show more content…
There is surely “a need for students to develop emotionally and professionally apart from their parents” as Goodman points out in his article (Goodman). Parents and guardians guide almost every aspect of a child’s life; adding one more factor of control creates greater chance of students struggling when the time comes to do their own decision-making. It is obviously easier to allow a parent the responsibility over a child “unstable academically, socially, or emotionally” (Goodman), but because something is easier does not always mean that it is the better
Mr. O’Connor
AP English Literature
12 January 2015
FERPA: Flaws in Educational Regulations for Political Alleviation Privacy plays a major role in every aspect of life from professional to personal. Our lives should not be displayed for everyone to see unless we give the say so. Schools and other educational institutions promote this right to students through the federal law of Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, FERPA. But FERPA is not always the best avenue to follow when the law is continuously being altered. According to the political blog Crazy Crawfish, “Congress has amended FERPA a total of nine times in the nearly 28 years since its enactment” (“FERPA Does Not Protect Student Privacy”). As a result, the school board of an Alabama school received a collection of hate from parents after passing a policy that correlated with President Obama’s changes to FERPA in December of 2011. According to the article, “the policy supposedly protects student privacy while it also allows the collection, data-mining and sharing of private, non-academic information on students without parental permission” (“Alabama School Board Passes Policy”).
President of the Alabama Federation of Republican Women, Elois Zeanah, looked deeper …show more content…
There is surely “a need for students to develop emotionally and professionally apart from their parents” as Goodman points out in his article (Goodman). Parents and guardians guide almost every aspect of a child’s life; adding one more factor of control creates greater chance of students struggling when the time comes to do their own decision-making. It is obviously easier to allow a parent the responsibility over a child “unstable academically, socially, or emotionally” (Goodman), but because something is easier does not always mean that it is the better