FERPA

Hello there,

Hopefully this is the correct place to discuss something like this, if not please redirect me.

I'm an 18 year old high school senior in the Cincinnati Public Schools district and I've been researching FERPA. I believe CPS receives funding from the national government and thus falls under FERPA regulations (please correct me if I'm wrong)

Based on my knowledge of FERPA I know that I am an "eligible student" having turned 18 years old, and the "educational records" that I believe have been disclosed to a "third party" (my peers) are my semester grades.

I was in a calculus last semester and ended up failing. It's the first high school class I have ever come close to failing and I decided to drop out of it in the second semester.

Some of my classmates that have since talked to me knew I had failed, and I hadn't told them. As it turns out my teacher had made a joke when an equation including the variable "F" was used by saying "just like [fill in my name]'s grade."

He once said to me "everyone has the right to fail" but I believe that I also have the right to fail without educational records being used for humor at my own expense. There's no doubt if I had put in the necessary time and effort I would have been able to pass. He's not a bad teacher when it comes to actual content. I deserved to fail and it's on me, I just don't think he's right to tell my class.

I even know that a student in another class was failing last semester because my friends told me after hearing a specific percentage grade that the teacher revealed to his class (trying to humiliate him so he does better or something like that)

He also leaves graded tests on a desk in a pile for students to collect as they come in. In a perfect world everyone goes straight for their test and doesn't look at everyone else's but let's be honest the whole class knows who is succeeding and who isn't.

It seems like this teacher is taking things too far and needs to respect his students and the law.

Am I completely out of line? Should I do anything about this? Any feedback is appreciated.

Submitted January 31, 2017 at 10:59AM by Rusefrost http://ift.tt/2kOoJtW