Privacy Concerns?

So, Wallace Hall has a lawsuit against the Univ. Of Texas-Austin to get the records of, well, pretty much every student at the school.

He is concerned that people who wrote letters of recommendation helped get people admitted that should not have gotten in, instead, they should have been down I-35 at Texas State in San Marcos, or at the Harvard of the Neches in Beaumont. The letters were written by state representatives, business leaders, etc.

Mr. Hall wants to prove that these people would not have gotten in without the letters.....and probably, they would not.....Hall is on the Board of Regents at UT.

The students in question number....73.....that's 73 over a number of years.

UT-Austin admits around 15,000 Freshmen every year.

I have always said if they really want to look at admissions, they need to look at those admitted with less than stellar GPAs and pitiful SAT scores...but they run a 4.2 forty, or stand 7 foot tall, or throw a 98 mph fastball, or won the 6A state tennis championship 3 years in a row.

The trouble is this, the opening of the records will open everyone's school records to scrutiny. Not just UT, but every school.....and we are talking college and high school.

Now, if you were under the old paper grade book system, they won't be wondering, " how the hell did they graduate?" Those old books are long shreaded.

The question is the new computer system. Even deleted, they can be recovered.

Now, I doubt questions like that could be brought up....but as crazy and goofy as stuff is in this day, you never know.

Sometimes, private stuff needs to be private. As a "World Famous Science Teacher" posted the other day, manners, work ethic, the kid doing the best they could often goes into a miricle " 70." ( I had a kid do some extra work during the Christmas Season. His effort graduated him. He will tell you that.)

Interesting times we live in....