Disclosures 6: Notifying parents about student suspensions, Part 2

Abstract

Last month, we talked about Marilyn who was suspended from classes but never told her parents. When she and her parents showed up to move into her dorm room for the spring semester, the dorm counselor told her, in the presence of her parents, that she had been suspended. Not only was this a violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, as I pointed out, but it was an embarrassing situation for both the student and the parents.