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confidentiality
By RB

Confidentiality does not stop at IEP's. It extends to all students grades, behaviors, home life, etc. These things should only be discussed with teachers who also have this students daily, the principal, school counselors,
and of course the student's parents. I have seen breaches of this almost on a daily basis. The worst is when head lice checks occur. Before the day is out, just about everyone in the school knows who has them and who doesn't. Even aides in the room shouldn't know because it violates the students rights and their parents rights to medical confidentiality. I know of one teacher who

demanded the student be removed from their room, which by the way is illegal, and told any one and everyone that the child had them, who their parents were, and that the office would not remove the child from her room. Another teacher told an aide of a situation in a classroom because that aide's grandchild was in their and she thought she should know. Even though the aide was a grandparent the situation concerned another child not her grandchild and since she didn't work in that room she had no business knowing. Of all problems that schools nation wide face, lack of confidentiality and student/parent rights violations are probably the most ignored.