Denying a parents right to see a graded test

[my4girls]

What is the name of your state? Kansas

Our school, like 65,000 others, uses the Accelerated Reader Program through Renaissance Learning, Inc. Test results are tied directly to the student's reading grade. Because of the way the program is designed (protecting RenLearn's profit-making motive) once the child sees what they've missed and exits out of the system, the test is gone forever. Only the percentage correct and the percentage of comprehension is left in the system.

My question is: since this program impacts the student's grade isn't the school legally obligated to send this information home just as they do with every other worksheet, assignment or test that is also tied to grades? Also, if the school is unable to produce the document in its entirety, wouldn't prudence suggest that the program should not be tied to student grades at all?

Thanks in advance for your insight!

Warmly,

StephanieWhat is the name of your state?

 

[moburkes]

No to the first question.

 

[CJane]

No to BOTH questions.

The school is not legally obligated to send home the worksheets or assignments completed in class... just because they DO it doesn't mean they HAVE to.

You have no 'legal right' to see the actual answer sheets for the standardized tests either, and while those aren't connected to the grade the child receives, they ARE connected to whether the child advances to the next grade.

And no, the inability of the parent to see the actual test/answers given is NOT a reason to stop using the test as a grading mechanism.

 

[my4girls]

Thank you for replying so quickly.

Regarding, no, to both questions, do you also mean this applies under FERPA?

Again, thanks.