FERPA Violation: Silverbrook Elementary School Students’ Privacy Violated; Behind the Scenes, Choosing Students to “Enrich”

FCPS continues its failure to secure student records—and its failure to address the unique needs of students.

I didn’t request the document below.

Fairfax Public County Public Schools (FCPS) provided it to me in response to a FERPA request related to my own students’ records.

FCPS redacted the names marked in black, but failed to redact almost another dozen names. I redacted those, before posting the document here. They appear as blank spaces in the document.

Between 2016 and 2020, FCPS has inadvertently provided me information about dozens of FCPS students and their families, and staff. I complain. The Virginia Department of Education (VODE) finds FCPS at fault for privacy violations, and then the noncompliance continues.

In addition to violating the privacy of these students, it is an interesting view of the “enrichment program” selection process.

I know almost all the boys listed and they’re great kids. However, they should have been considered for this program sooner, but they weren’t.

Why?