{"id":103,"date":"2008-09-24T08:45:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T13:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=103"},"modified":"2008-09-24T08:27:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T13:27:38","slug":"can-parents-observe-childrens-classrooms-placements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/can-parents-observe-childrens-classrooms-placements\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Parents Observe Children&#8217;s Classrooms &#038; Placements?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Can%20Parents%20Observe%20Children%27s%20Classrooms%20%26%20Placements%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p><em>Do I have a right to observe the class before agreeing (or not agreeing) to a placement for my child? The special ed director said I cannot observe the class because of confidentiality issues with the other children<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some schools take the position that parents and\/or their representatives cannot observe a child in the classroom because this would violate the privacy of other children.<\/p>\n<p>Do all public school students have privacy rights? Do children with disabilities have different privacy rights that require schools to educate them in secret?<\/p>\n<p>Does the the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act provide a right for parents to observe their children&#8217;s classrooms or proposed placements?<\/p>\n<p>Does the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) prohibit parents or their professional representatives from observing a child in a special education or regular classroom?<\/p>\n<p>What do <strong>you<\/strong> think?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For answers to these and other questions about confidentiality and student privacy (and useful strategies if you encounter this problem), read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/priv.confid.observe.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Parent Observations v. Student Confidentiality<\/span><\/a> by Pete and Pam Wright at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/priv.confid.observe.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/priv.confid.observe.htm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also learn about parental rights to observe your child&#8217;s classroom from an unexpected source &#8211; the No Child Left Behind Act!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Resource<\/strong>: In response to requests from the Education Law Center, the U. S. Department of Education clarified parental observations of children under the IDEA and student confidentiality under FERPA.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/ferpa.osep.observe.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Answers to Questions about Parent Observations, Privacy and Confidentiality from the U.S. Dept of Ed<\/span><\/a> at <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/ferpa.osep.observe.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/ferpa.osep.observe.htm<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do I have a right to observe the class before agreeing (or not agreeing) to a placement for my child? The special ed director said I cannot observe the class <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/can-parents-observe-childrens-classrooms-placements\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,195,5,11],"tags":[197,1324,1325,198,196,201,1317,87],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-confidentiality","category-idea-2004","category-special-ed-law","tag-classroom-observations","tag-confidentiality","tag-ferpa","tag-observations","tag-parent-observations","tag-parent-participation","tag-placement","tag-privacy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26773,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/26773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}