<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">FERPA and state law allow for directory information to be shared without permission unless the parent has specifically opted out of sharing directory information. Districts send the opt-out form along with the stack of forms at the beginning of the year. Few parents have any idea they can opt out.</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<h2 style="font-size:1.4em;font-family:Verdana,serif;margin:0.5em 0px 0px">3319.321 Confidentiality.</h2><p style="line-height:18.96000099182129px;text-align:justify;font-family:Verdana,serif"></p><p style="line-height:18.96000099182129px;text-align:justify;font-family:Verdana,serif">
</p><p style="line-height:18.96000099182129px;text-align:justify;font-family:Verdana,serif"><a title="§ 3319.321. (A)" name="14418977f302cdf1_3319.321(A)" style="color:rgb(0,0,139);white-space:nowrap">(A)</a> No person shall release, or permit access to, the directory information concerning any students attending a public school to any person or group for use in a profit-making plan or activity. Notwithstanding division (B)(4) of section <a href="http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/149.43" title="149.43" target="_blank" style="color:maroon">149.43</a> of the Revised Code, a person may require disclosure of the requestor's identity or the intended use of the directory information concerning any students attending a public school to ascertain whether the directory information is for use in a profit-making plan or activity.</p>
<p style="line-height:18.96000099182129px;text-align:justify;font-family:Verdana,serif"><a title="§ 3319.321. (B)" name="14418977f302cdf1_3319.321(B)" style="color:rgb(0,0,139);white-space:nowrap">(B)</a> No person shall release, or permit access to, personally identifiable information other than directory information concerning any student attending a public school, for purposes other than those identified in division (C), (E), (G), or (H) of this section, without the written consent of the parent, guardian, or custodian of each such student who is less than eighteen years of age, or without the written consent of each such student who is eighteen years of age or older.</p>
<p style="line-height:18.96000099182129px;text-align:justify;font-family:Verdana,serif"><a title="§ 3319.321. (B)(1)" name="14418977f302cdf1_3319.321(B)(1)" style="color:rgb(0,0,139);white-space:nowrap">(1)</a><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"> </span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">For purposes of this section, "directory information" includes a student's name, address, telephone listing, date and place of birth, major field of study, participation in officially recognized activities and sports, weight and height of members of athletic teams, dates of attendance, date of graduation, and awards received.</span></p>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Colleen Boyle, PhD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:boyleconsulting@me.com" target="_blank">boyleconsulting@me.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">FERPA protects all private information about a minor child in the schools - academic and athletic. However, in both cases, parents may sign a waiver granting districts permission to share specific information, photographs, names, video, etc. There is often a blanket form that is sent with registration/first day of school paperwork, and sometimes there are more specific forms for particular events or organizations. My office uses specific forms for academic events all the time in order to publish non-athletic accomplishments of our students. I would imagine athletes had to have similar forms signed at the start of their season. Although I am sure district efforts to put out media releases may play a role in what is covered, in my experience, as Will states, what is published is a media choice rather than a FERPA issue.<div>
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<div>Colleen Boyle, Ph.D.</div><div>Gifted Coordinator and Educational Consultant</div><div>Columbus, OH</div><div><a href="mailto:boyleconsulting@me.com" target="_blank">boyleconsulting@me.com</a></div><div><br></div><div>
Specialities:</div><div><div>Educational Psychology</div><div>Gifted Education and Psychology</div><div>Educational Administration</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><br>
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<br><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Feb 9, 2014, at 4:00 PM, Rob Berryman <<a href="mailto:berryman@fairlawn.k12.oh.us" target="_blank">berryman@fairlawn.k12.oh.us</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite">
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<div><div class="h5"><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;margin:0px"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">FERPA doesn't allow us to single out a kid for performing above and beyond our expectations academically, but yet student athletes can be photographed and recognized county and state-wide in the media.</div>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </p><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Very, very sad.</div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"></p><div style="color:rgb(40,40,40)"><hr style="width:711px;display:inline-block">
<div dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b><span> </span><a href="mailto:ohiogift-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank">ohiogift-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><span> </span><<a href="mailto:ohiogift-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank">ohiogift-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a>> on behalf of Will Fitzhugh <<a href="mailto:fitzhugh@tcr.org" target="_blank">fitzhugh@tcr.org</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Saturday, February 08, 2014 8:42 AM<br><b>To:</b><span> </span><a href="mailto:ohiogift@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank">ohiogift@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>[Ohiogift] Media Blackout</font><div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0px"><font size="5">MEDIA BLACKOUT</font></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino;margin:0px;text-align:center">
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<span style="letter-spacing:0px"><font size="3">Will Fitzhugh</font></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino;margin:0px;text-align:center">
<span style="letter-spacing:0px"><i><font size="3">The Concord Review</font></i></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino;margin:0px;text-align:center">
<span style="letter-spacing:0px"><font size="3">8 February 2014</font></span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino;margin:0px;min-height:16px">
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<font size="3"><br></font></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino;margin:0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"><font size="3">In the United States,<span> </span><b>our media are not allowed to report on or discuss exemplary student academic achievement at the high school level</b>. For example, in the “Athens of America,”<span> </span><i>The Boston Globe<span> </span></i>has more than 150 full pages each year on the accomplishments of high school athletes, but only one page a year on academics—a full page with the photographs of valedictorians at the public high schools in the city, giving their name, their school, their country of origin (often 40% foreign-born) and the college they will be going to. </font></span></div>
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<div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino;margin:0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"><font size="3">The reasons for this<span> </span><b>media blackout</b><span> </span>on good academic work by students at the secondary level are not clear, apart from tradition, but while high school athletes who “sign with” a particular college are celebrated in the local paper, and even on televised national high school games, the names of Intel Science Talent Search winners, of authors published in<span> </span><i>The Concord Review</i>, and of other accomplished high school scholars may not appear in the paper or on television.</font></span></div>
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<div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino;margin:0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"><font size="3">Publicity offers encouragement for the sorts of efforts we would like our HS students to make. We naturally publicize high school athletic achievements and this helps to motivate athletes to engage in sports.<span> </span><b>By contrast, when it comes to good academic work, we don't mention it, so perhaps we want less of it? </b></font></span></div>
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<div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino;margin:0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"><font size="3">One senior high school history teacher has written that<span> </span><b>“We actually hide academic excellence from the public eye because that will single out some students and make others ‘feel bad.’”</b></font></span></div>
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<div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino;margin:0px"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"><font size="3">Does revealing excellence by high school athletes make some other athletes or scholar-athletes or high school scholars feel bad? How can we tolerate that? I know there are some Progressive secondary schools which have eliminated academic prizes and honors, to spare the feelings of the students who don’t get them, but I don’t see that they have stopped keeping score in school games, no matter how the losers in those contests may feel.</font></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing:0px"><font size="3"><b>SAMPLE MEDIA COVERAGE OF HS ATHLETES</b></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 7px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino;text-align:center">
<span style="letter-spacing:0px"><font size="3"><b><i>Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i>’s Signing Day Central—By Michael Carvell</b></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino;text-align:center">
<span style="letter-spacing:0px"><font size="3"><b>11:02 am Wednesday, February 5th, 2014</b></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino">
<span style="letter-spacing:0px"><font size="3"><b><i>“Welcome to the AJC’s Signing day Day Central. This is the place to be to catch up with all the<span> </span></i><i>recruiting</i><i><span> </span>information with UGA, Georgia Tech and recruits from the state of Georgia. We will<span> </span></i><i>update</i><i><span> </span>the news as it happens, and interact on the message board below.</i></b></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino;text-align:center"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"><font size="3"><b>University of Georgia’s TOP TARGETS FOR WEDNESDAY…AND RESULTS</b></font></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"><font size="3"><b>Lorenzo Carter, DE, 6-5, 240, Norcross: UGA reeled in the big fish, landing the state’s No.1 overall prospect for the first time since 2011 (Josh Harvey-Clemons). Isaiah McKenzie, WR, 5-8, 175, Ft. Lauderdale (Fla.) American Heritage: This was<span> </span><a href="http://recruiting.blog.ajc.com/2014/02/05/uga-flips-te-committed-to-cincinnati-updated/" target="_blank"><span>one of two big surprises for UGA to kick off signing day</span></a>. McKenzie got a last-minute offer from UGA and picked the Bulldogs because of his best buddy and high school teammate, 5-star Sony Michel (signed with UGA). Hunter Atkinson, TE, 6-6, 250, West Hall: The Cincinnati commit got a last-minute<span> </span><a href="http://recruiting.blog.ajc.com/2014/02/05/uga-flips-te-committed-to-cincinnati-updated/" target="_blank"><span>call from Mark Richt and flipped to UGA</span></a>. I’m not going to say we saw it coming, but … Atkinson had grayshirt offers from Alabama, Auburn and UCF. Tavon Ross, S, 6-1, 200, Bleckley County: The Missouri commit took an official visit to UGA but decided to stick with Missouri. He’s signed. Andrew Williams, DE, 6-4, 247, ECLA: He signed with Auburn over Clemson and Auburn. He joked with Auburn’s Gus Malzahn when he called with the news, saying “I’m sorry to inform you….. That I will be attending your school,” according to<span> </span><a href="http://247sports.com/" target="_blank">247sports.com</a>’s Kipp Adams. Tyre McCants, WR-DB, 5-11, 200, Niceville, Fla.: Turned down late interest from UGA to sign with USF.”</b></font></span></p>
<div><br></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 10px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing:0px"><font size="3">This is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, of course, in the coverage of high school athletes that goes on during the year.<span> </span><b>I hope readers will email me any comparable examples of the celebration of exemplary high school academic work that they can find in the media in their community, or in the nation generally.</b></font></span></p>
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Will Fitzhugh [founder]</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino;margin:0px"><i>The Concord Review</i> [1987]</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino;margin:0px">
Ralph Waldo Emerson Prizes [1995]</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino;margin:0px">National Writing Board [1998]</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino;margin:0px">
TCR Institute [2002]</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino;margin:0px">730 Boston Post Road, Suite 24</div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Palatino;margin:0px">
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