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Schools Set To Destroy Records

Shredding slated for health and confidential/special education records for Montville students enrolled before 2004

 

Before the end of the month, health records and confidential special education files for Montville Public Schools students will be destroyed. The files and records apply to any student that attended prior to the 2004/2005 school year.

As prescribed by the State of Connecticut’s Records Retention/Disposition Schedule, all those files for students enrolled before 2004 will be disposed of. Electronic records must be overwritten or erased and paper records must be shredded.  

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So if a parent, or former student, wants these records before they are destroyed they’d better act fast; the deadline to request those files is July 27. Call the Montville High School counseling office at (860) 848-1245 before the deadline. 

“These records may be needed by student/parent in the future for Social Security benefits or other purposes,” the notice reads.

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And according to a number of advocates for children and adults with special needs, keeping records like these is “essential.”

The Pacer Center, an agency that advocates for children and young adults with disabilities, urges parents to keep those records including but not limited to all files on student Individual Educational Plans, any correspondence, surveys and test scores, calls and meetings, evaluations and releases.

The federal law about education records, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, addresses a parent’s and student’s right to records.    

The destruction of confidential files slated to be done the last week of July by Montville Public Schools does not include regular education records, according to the school's website.

 

 

 

 


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