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1. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act protects the confidentiality of records maintained by the school.

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2. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act provides guidelines for how long schools must maintain student records.

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3. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act guidelines provide that records which are potentially embarrassing to the school may be kept confidential and withheld from the parents.

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4. Codes of Ethics are designed to help protect the interests of teachers and paraeducators as well as students and their families.

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5. Parents of students with disabilities have a right to know about changes in the status of school programs provided for their child.

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6. Schools may freely submit information about a child to another government agency if they judge that the information will contribute to the welfare of the child.

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7. Schools may maintain records on students indefinitely.

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8. Based on the Family Rights and Privacy Act, parents have a right to see notes that are maintained regarding their son or daughter.

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9. Parents may obtain a copy of all records maintained by the school concerning their child.

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10. Discussing the funny things that children do does no harm if it happens in the teacher's lounge and the child never finds out.

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11. When problems arise between yourself and another staff member, the ethical approach is to first discuss the issue with that staff member.

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12. All persons who are granted access to confidential records must receive training or instruction regarding the state's policies and procedures on handling confidential information.

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13. The issue of confidentiality applies either when the student's name is used, or when the listener might use other information to determine who the student is.

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14. Family, educational, or medical histories are considered non-confidential school records.

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15. It is appropriate to discuss a particular student with other school staff members even if they do not work with the student.

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