How exactly do “permanent records” work? Do they actually exist, especially beyond school?
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“permanent records” aren’t totally a myth. They sometimes are important when applying for college. Other than that, nobody will ever see them.
Back in the day, highschool transcripts almost always included information about a student’s disciplinary record. That’s becoming less common in recent years. but a majority of colleges (at least half), still look at high school displinary records. Nowadays, many colleges don’t really want to know about disciplinary records, and some high schools don’t provide them to colleges.
So the real answer is: It depends on where you went to high school, and which colleges you are applying to.
It’s becoming a bit of a controversial subject, and there is a lot of debate going on about whether colleges should or should not ask for disciplinary records. Starting in 2021, the common application for colleges no longer asks about high school disciplinary records. But individual colleges can still ask about them.
https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2020/10/05/common-app-stop-asking-students-about-their-high-school-disciplinary
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