Clinch County Schools FERPA Notice

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1965

The Clinch County School System has designated the following information as DIRECTORY INFORMATION:

1. Students name, address, telephone number, and grade level

2. Student’s date and place of birth

3. Student’s participation in official school activities, clubs and sports.

4. Weight and height of student if he/she is a member of an athletic team

5. Dates of attendance at school

6. Awards received during time enrolled in our school system.

7. Pictures of students involved in school activities.

Additionally, this law along with the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002 requires that we must provide student’s name, address and telephone number to military recruiters upon request.

Unless you, as a parent/guardian or eligible student, request otherwise, this information may be disclosed to the public or recruiters upon request. You have the right to refuse to allow all or any part of the above information to be designated as directory information and to be disclosed to the public upon request. If you wish to exercise this right, you must notify the Principal of the school at which the student is enrolled in writing within 10 days after the date of this notice.

School officials may take photographs, video, and/or interviews of students at school or at a school event or activity and such photographs, videos, and interviews may be published including Internet publication. If you, as a parent/guardian, object to the publication of a photograph, video or interview of your student, the objection must be presented in writing to the principal of the school where your student is enrolled within 10 days after the date of this notice.

Although the Clinch County School System may release directory information if a written objection is not filed as specified above, the
Clinch County School System is not required to release any information
regarding a student, including directory information, unless the law
mandates the release of such information.