I’m not putting down this girl. I’m just concerned that the school may not have considered her academic record worthy of the same privacy that other students get. We had to appear in person with photo identification and register with the school in order to get online access to our own kids’ school grades–the US postal service was not deemed secure enough for this–so it’s a bit hard to understand how a school could release such privileged info to a TV station.
Sports are generally played in public in front of an audience and I’m not aware of any laws or policies about privacy for sports.
Always nice to hear some good news. It is a remarkable accomplishment for a 15yo. I’d rather hear a million schools or parents bragging about how well their kids did than one more violent crime story.
Natiinal Merit SF and finalists names are typicslly available from all kinds of media outlets. My son was a SF and his picture was in the paper along with the others from his school. I can’t remember if we had to sign something for that. We all knew well in advance and coukd have objected I assume. We also have always signed a form every year authorizing the school to use our kids in any publicity etc. That lmay have sufficed for putting him in the paper. But as I said we all knew and coukd have objected. “We will be taking pictures for the paper next week” type of deal. I assume similar happened in this situation. Certainly the kid knew he was being put on TV.
Why is privacy needed??? Great for the local station to show that locals can do well. My son was 15 when got a 35 on the spring ACT of junior year, retook the SAT when barely 16 for the 2400 as a senior. Mostly 5’s, some 4’s on his many AP’s. He did minimal prep- made him go through a practice test for each (had done them for talent search in middle school as well). But he was a boy and could have studied more for some. I think it is fantastic to recognize when students do well- son only got his name/group photo for the good cross country sports team. Also nice to know that students away from the big cities and east coast also can be smart and do well. Gifted kids are all over. Not surprising that parents with advance degrees emphasize education and provide a good academic environment for their often innately gifted kids.