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Why shouldn't an educator as a classroom manager have knowledge of education law and of what use can such knowledge be to the educator? so there's a number of reasons why an educator would want to be familiar with educational law.
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So as an educator myself, this one is near and dear to my heart, because there are certain things that i need to know in the classroom.
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Because if i am not aware of educational law, i could be breaking the law without even knowing it.
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And it's important to remember that ignorance is not a defense.
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I would still be liable.
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So what are some reasons? so let's take a look at ferpa.
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Ferpa is one that every educator in the classroom should know about.
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Ferpa is the acronym for the family, educational, rights, and privacy act.
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This is all about confidentiality, really.
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This is the law that says i am not allowed to go home and blab about my students.
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I cannot go home and talk to my family about student grades.
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I can't talk about, you know, things that have like specifics that happen in the classroom with specific names.
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I can't talk about if somebody was suspended for my class for a specific reason, can't talk about their grades, those sorts of things.
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So it's a federal law that affords parents the right to have access to their children's educational records, the right to seek to have the records amended, and the right to have some control over the disclosure of personally identifiable information from education...