<p>I don’t think Target offers this service… BB&B does, though.</p>
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<p>I thought many schools do send report cards home if the student approves of this. My children had better.</p>
<p>I did some volunteering at my son’s school this year. They wanted parents of current students there to speak to the incoming freshman parents and that was always a question-“How will I know their grades?” My advice was exactly that-talk to your kids. Your student may give you access to their information (FERPA) but really that only gives the university the ability to answer questions you have regarding your student. To find grades you would have to talk to each professor and it is unlikely they would even give you the grades with that. If your child is very open with you, they can give you their password to log in to their “portal”. But that is unlikely too. Very hard to get used to when you have had access to all of that for the last 12 or 13 years.</p>
<p>We will do the move in this weekend and hope to experience some of these faux pas and not be the one doing them!</p>
<p>I don’t think any colleges send report cards home any more. Although I think most will notify the local paper if your kid gets on the deans list.</p>
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<p>What? Certainly not big schools. At my school that would be a full page.</p>
<p>Colleges don’t send home report cards, period. (I’m sure there is some exception that proves the rule, but in general, it’s not done.) You can certainly demand to see your child’s grades as a condition of your paying their expenses.</p>
<p>I was very surprised that we received mailed grades sent to “The Parents of Granite State Kid” both semesters last year. I, too, thought that practice had ended long ago. D shared her grades with us long before they arrived by mail, so it wasn’t really news. We also received a letter when she was received an award as one of the outstanding freshman of the year. That one was news to us, although apparently D had already been informed.</p>
<p>You can do a search for a list of stores that offer site-to-store shipping…most often for free, although not all iteas are eligible…but most are. I would post but it’s in a blog.</p>
<p>S1’s school posts his grades online, and I have the password to obtain them. S1 knows this and approves, otherwise he’d be lost financial-aid wise.</p>
<p>A quick note on the grades being sent home to parents - Back in the student uprisings of the late 60’s-early 70’s students demanded that their college life be private from their parents based on the over 18 concepts. It didn’t matter who was paying, privacy and being over 18 was the issue and colleges gave in, followed by laws. That’s why today, once your kid turns 18 just about everything legally goes through him/her. Even in most cases the tuition bill (sometimes they say - “to the parents of” if still using mail to bill).</p>
<p>If you want information on your kid once he/she turns 18 then you need to have a form sent for both of you to sign, then you will have access to his/her medical records or school records, or if your kid gives you their password (if it’s done via email). Even though your kid can be covered by your insurance until 26, you do not automatically have access to their medical visits.</p>
<p>Thank the baby boomers (of which I am one)!</p>
<p>The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), which was passed in 1974, controls information related to educational records. As amtc states, once a student reaches 18 (or is attending a postsecondary institution) they have a right to see their educational records, but their parents do not:</p>
<p>[FERPA</a> for Students](<a href=“http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/students.html]FERPA”>http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/students.html)</p>
<p>This topic comes up all the time. I believe if you are still claiming your kid over the age of 18 on your taxes then FERPA does not give schools the right to not disclose your kid’s grades. I believe FERPA came into place to protect kid’s rights in other areas of disclosing grades and as often happens, was applied to restricting parents instead of restricting outsiders.</p>
<p>If you show the schools on your taxes you are claiming your kid, then they must show you their grades. </p>
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<p>From the link above.
[FERPA</a> for Students](<a href=“http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/students.html]FERPA”>http://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/students.html)</p>
<p>Vladenschlutee - I was referring to the student’s home paper.
DS has an option on his account that if he gets on the deans list at Georgia Tech they will send that to our community paper. Our local paper lists kids from quite a few colleges that get on their deans list including some pretty big schools. </p>
<p>I’m not sure about that showing the taxes thing though. I think it would be a big pain to get them to do it.They seemed pretty clear at orientation that if we wanted to know what our kids grades were the kids would need to tell us.</p>
<p>They won’t tell you about the tax thing. They want your student to sign the consent so they don’t have to deal with it which makes it your problem instead of there’s.</p>
<p>Lakemom, notice the difference in the highlighted words
I wish DW and I had known about FERPA back in 1983/4. We were married living in OH and had to call her parents in NY to find out her final grades because that’s where they were sent. It wasn’t that they declared her on their taxes…</p>
<p>I see what you are saying but I don’t think the use of the word “may” means that they don’t have to. I think it means, that they now have permission to. </p>
<p>I have never tried to do this. I have my son’s password to check his grades so I can’t say how each school would respond.</p>
<p>I do know from my own experience with the DMV where they were sure that they couldn’t do something which they thought was in writing. Then after being passed to 3 people where the 3rd actually looked up the rule found that it didn’t say what everyone thought. </p>
<p>I would imagine schools have all been fed that they cannot show any grades of someone over 18 when it really means those students who are not dependents of their parents.</p>
<p>School are allowed to share grades of a student who is a dependent, but most do not do it by default. DS’s school says they will contact the parents of a dependent student if there is a problem and they think it is in the student’s best interest for the parent to be notified. And furthermore that they will assume any undergraduate student is a dependent of their parents unless they provide evidence otherwise (or fill out a form or something). However, they are apparently very conservative about when they actually do that, because I have a friend whose first indication that there was a problem was the registered letter sent to the STUDENT saying he was not welcome back the next semester (he was put on mandatory leave of absence and given a path to come back by taking certain classes locally and doing well on them). </p>
<p>So, I think the schools know that they can show grades to the parents of a dependent student, they just choose not to.</p>
<p>My kid doesn’t have to sign the FERPA document or show me her grades… only if she wants me to pay her next tuition bill… However, I won’t ask for her portal password. At D1’s school that was also access to their school email, which I consider personal and something I should not have access to. But they have to show me online and print the page if I ask.</p>
<p>Never has been an issue. I ask the kid for the information - I get it.</p>
<p>Kids who are struggling have been known to give their parents false or misleading information – even kids of whom you’d never expect such a thing…</p>