How exactly do “permanent records” work? Do they actually exist, especially beyond school?
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Generally in life you will be judged by your behaviors and actions at or around the time of being judged. In school, your record of any disciplinary action can help a school justify a worse/lesser punishment, but beyond school a record of disciplinary action from so many years before can’t really be used to hurt you because it’s perfectly likely that you have grown as a person since your time in grade school.
An alternative way of thinking about this would be to ask yourself if someone would deserve to “get away” with something due to a lack of permanent record – in which the answer is no. A good person shouldn’t be worried about their past troubles coming back to haunt them, and a bad person shouldn’t lean on a clean record to defend them.
Anyone else think of the principal from the Doug cartoon?
Generally in life you will be judged by your behaviors and actions at or around the time of being judged. In school, your record of any disciplinary action can help a school justify a worse/lesser punishment, but beyond school a record of disciplinary action from so many years before can’t really be used to hurt you because it’s perfectly likely that you have grown as a person since your time in grade school.
An alternative way of thinking about this would be to ask yourself if someone would deserve to “get away” with something due to a lack of permanent record – in which the answer is no. A good person shouldn’t be worried about their past troubles coming back to haunt them, and a bad person shouldn’t lean on a clean record to defend them.
Generally in life you will be judged by your behaviors and actions at or around the time of being judged. In school, your record of any disciplinary action can help a school justify a worse/lesser punishment, but beyond school a record of disciplinary action from so many years before can’t really be used to hurt you because it’s perfectly likely that you have grown as a person since your time in grade school.
An alternative way of thinking about this would be to ask yourself if someone would deserve to “get away” with something due to a lack of permanent record – in which the answer is no. A good person shouldn’t be worried about their past troubles coming back to haunt them, and a bad person shouldn’t lean on a clean record to defend them.
I’m a hiring manager and permanent records definitely exist. I always immediately flip back and check if an applicant had any detentions in elementary school, any red means applicant goes right in the trash. Big things I look for are volunteering in high school, participation awards, and perfect attendance. I’ll tell you right now, if you’re the kid who peed their pants in second grade you may as well just start planning your future trailer park home.
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Anyone else think of the principal from the Doug cartoon?
Anyone else think of the principal from the Doug cartoon?
I’m a hiring manager and permanent records definitely exist. I always immediately flip back and check if an applicant had any detentions in elementary school, any red means applicant goes right in the trash. Big things I look for are volunteering in high school, participation awards, and perfect attendance. I’ll tell you right now, if you’re the kid who peed their pants in second grade you may as well just start planning your future trailer park home.
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Permanent records are stored in a school for two years post graduation and then shipped to the board where they’re stored forever. The only people who have access to these records are you (upon request) and the police (if they have a warrant). They’re largely not things of consequence. The only documents from here anyone has access to are ones you consent to giving (and if police have a warrant).
The creepier permanent records are the ones you don’t even know you have. Corporations track all sorts of information on you throughout your life. Like when I volunteered to by a minor league hockey assistant coach…. they had my record of playing hockey, every single game… every single goal… what positions I played… what numbers I had…. what penalties I had.
I’m a hiring manager and permanent records definitely exist. I always immediately flip back and check if an applicant had any detentions in elementary school, any red means applicant goes right in the trash. Big things I look for are volunteering in high school, participation awards, and perfect attendance. I’ll tell you right now, if you’re the kid who peed their pants in second grade you may as well just start planning your future trailer park home.
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