How exactly do “permanent records” work? Do they actually exist, especially beyond school?
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It took me years to figure out that me and my sister throwing berries into the neighbor’s swimming pool wasn’t going to be a blight on a permanent record somewhere.
It took me years to figure out that me and my sister throwing berries into the neighbor’s swimming pool wasn’t going to be a blight on a permanent record somewhere.
Before the Privacy Act of 1974 (coupled with FOIA), you could not see your own permanent record that schools and employers and creditors kept on you–including recommendations and comments from teachers, supervisors and colleagues. Tricky Dick Nixon was President. It was common for people acting on his behalf to smear people via “permanent records”. 60 Minutes investigated and one of their stories was about a guy that had an altercation with a lunch lady in high school. She put in his record that he was retarded. It followed him for life and he couldn’t get a job, join the military or get into a college. Like the Patriot Act, people forget…
My high school had a “senior checkout” day when I graduated. They let us have the file the district kept on us when as we progressed through school. Mine had old grade cards from kindergarten, counselor comments, and awards + recognition I had earned throughout my younger years.
It was actually kind of touching to see how things had evolved over my educational journey.
My high school had a “senior checkout” day when I graduated. They let us have the file the district kept on us when as we progressed through school. Mine had old grade cards from kindergarten, counselor comments, and awards + recognition I had earned throughout my younger years.
It was actually kind of touching to see how things had evolved over my educational journey.
They can be used in the school system to justify different decisions and processes. In a teacher, and have had a few occasions where admin’s answer about highly disruptive students was to make sure we’re logging this stuff. It’s literally a record the school can use to argue for their decisions and defend themselves legally.
A parent threatening a lawsuit is a lot less scary when you have a year’s worth of records about all the stuff their child pulled and every step taken by the school to improve the situation.
1 job threatened to put me on a Performance Plan and it would show on my record. My failed drug test is on another. In reality, they dont matter and cant be communicated from ine group to another
if you are currently in school, and you commit a crime on campus, or you are a suspect for a serious crime off campus, law enforcement might request your record from your school if it is an active investigation or if they are determining the level of charges to bring against you. this is the only thing i can think of that would make someone’s school record relevant. and that would only be if you are still in school.
once you’re an adult, it means absolutely nothing.
if you are currently in school, and you commit a crime on campus, or you are a suspect for a serious crime off campus, law enforcement might request your record from your school if it is an active investigation or if they are determining the level of charges to bring against you. this is the only thing i can think of that would make someone’s school record relevant. and that would only be if you are still in school.
once you’re an adult, it means absolutely nothing.
1 job threatened to put me on a Performance Plan and it would show on my record. My failed drug test is on another. In reality, they dont matter and cant be communicated from ine group to another
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