When I'm not drinking in parking lots or playing on facebook, I actually spend much of my time implementing education law. Because of that, this Eric Bledsoe fiasco is driving me insane. Here in these United States, where letting people pay for your living expenses and taking Algebra 3 is legal and beating people because of hairbrushes and threatening to kill your girlfriend is not, we have a little law we like to call FERPA (Federal Educational Right To Privacy Act.)
This act means that I cannot release to a college that a student I work with has received special education services. It means I can't tell y'all the funny stories that happen at work everyday. And it means that no one gets to know the grades Eric Bledsoe made in high school unless Eric Bledsoe wants to brag. I don't know if it's illegal for "The New York Times" to print Eric's grades, but I know fo' sho' that it's illegal for the Birmingham Schools, or a college coach, or anyone but Eric or his mama to go telling them. The school system knows that, too. That's why the grades in the report were redacted real quick-like today before the report was released. Say that three times fast.
I think Bledsoe needs to sue. No, he doesn't need the money. No, it didn't really affect him. But somebody had a grudge out there, and that person knowingly broke the law. Please go get $#!+ right, Eric.
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