<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://293/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Colleen Boyle, Ph.D.</div><div>Gifted Coordinator and Educational Consultant</div><div>Columbus, OH</div><div><a href="mailto:boyleconsulting@me.com">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 class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br><div><div>On Feb 9, 2014, at 4:00 PM, Rob Berryman <<a href="mailto:berryman@fairlawn.k12.oh.us">berryman@fairlawn.k12.oh.us</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div tabindex="0" dir="ltr" aria-label="Message body" fpstyle="1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" id="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 tabindex="-1" style="width: 711px; display: inline-block; "><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ohiogift-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">ohiogift-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:ohiogift-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">ohiogift-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a>> on behalf of Will Fitzhugh <<a href="mailto:fitzhugh@tcr.org">fitzhugh@tcr.org</a>><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Saturday, February 08, 2014 8:42 AM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:ohiogift@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">ohiogift@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Ohiogift] Media Blackout</font><div> </div></div><div><div><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><br></font></div><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; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" 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; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><br></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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" 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 class="Apple-style-span" 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 class="Apple-style-span" 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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><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; min-height: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" 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 class="Apple-style-span" size="3">In the United States,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </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 class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Boston Globe<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </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><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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><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 class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The reasons for this<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>media blackout</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </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 class="Apple-converted-space"> </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><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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><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 class="Apple-style-span" 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 class="Apple-converted-space"> </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><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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><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 class="Apple-style-span" size="3">One senior high school history teacher has written that<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </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><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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><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 class="Apple-style-span" 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><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 class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></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; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "></span><br></font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 7px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Palatino; text-align: center; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" 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 class="Apple-style-span" 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 class="Apple-style-span" 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 class="Apple-style-span" 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 class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i><i>recruiting</i><i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>information with UGA, Georgia Tech and recruits from the state of Georgia. We will<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i><i>update</i><i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </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 class="Apple-style-span" 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 class="Apple-style-span" 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 class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://recruiting.blog.ajc.com/2014/02/05/uga-flips-te-committed-to-cincinnati-updated/"><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 class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://recruiting.blog.ajc.com/2014/02/05/uga-flips-te-committed-to-cincinnati-updated/"><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 class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://247sports.com/">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 class="Apple-style-span" 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 class="Apple-converted-space"> </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></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><br></span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; "><br></span></div><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-transform: none; 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