Relax. Your eyes are not going bad and you don't need to wait for the coffee to kick in. That's a Latin phrase meaning generally "Who watches the watchers?"
I received an email asking an interesting question: Who is physically doing the Morrisville re-registrations? Only Morrisville School District employees can perform this function for confidentiality reasons. The email I received suggested that community volunteers were going to be assisting. Does anyone have the facts?
UPDATED July 31:
VOLUNTEER REQUEST - STUDENT RE-REGISTRATION
The Morrisville School District is requesting volunteers to assist with re-registration of ALL district students. Re-registrations will take place at the Morrisville M/S High School on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8:30 to noon and 1:00 to 3:00 during the day as well as in the evening from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm on the following dates -- August 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21 -- also on Saturdays August 9 and 16 from 10 am to 3 pm.
Please call the Office of the Superintendent 215-736-5930 if you can offer assistance in this process. As always, thank you for your support.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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It is true that volunteers are being used during the off-hours, presumably so that staff does not need to be paid overtime. Staff should still be available "during the day on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 8:30 to noon. and from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. throughout the month of August." Volunteers will be doing used "Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings during the first three weeks in August from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the LGI (Large Group Instruction) room of the middle/senior high school. There will be two Saturday reregistrations. They will be held August 9 and 16 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the middle senior high school in the LGI."
I applaud the volunteers for wanting to get involved, however, I do have a problem with privacy and will therefore only give my information to a staff member.
As for the comment, "Only Morrisville School District employees can perform this function for confidentiality reasons" I would change this to, Only Morrisville School District employees SHOULD perform this function for confidentiality reasons.
Did I miss the meeting where this was discussed, voted on?
Was this truly a "board" decision or a Presidential decision?
Did Mike Fitzpatrick sign off on this? Tom Kelly was very much against this the last time we did this silly exercise.
I'm not sure of Fitzpatrick's involvement in this, but I know it was not the administration's decision, which means it was a Board decision, but I don't recall the Board voting on this...
Good Question, Papers!
Where is Mr. Fitzpatrick on this? Is this or is it not a privacy issue?
And I'm just wondering, when did the board vote on this? I'm watching the board via Comcast and I don't see the vote for that. Maybe I missed it. Could someone let me know?
Does your comcast pick up Hellmanns office?
When we did this a few years back, our solicitor told us that it was a violation of mandated confidentiality to allow volunteers to do the reregistration, as well as a violation of the support staff contract. We were told in no uncertain terms that we could NOT use volunteers.
OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I smell another legal problem for the board of directors. No votey and a violation of confidentiality? That's a spankin'
FERPA - look it up.
FERPA is the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
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