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echo: educator
to: BOB MOYLAN
from: MATT SMITH
date: 1996-11-19 20:19:00
subject: Re: Privacy law

BM>  > CB> Are you allowed to put student's work in your resume' 
BM> document?
BM> 
BM>  >     I see _major_ legal problems in doing that!
BM> 
BM>  DR> Is it illegal to carry a work portfolio of children's work and 
BM> of
BM>  DR> parent letters, to an interview? I have a notebook in which I 
BM> keep
BM>  DR> copies of children's work, photos of children at work in the
BM>  DR> classroom, letters and comments from classroom parents, as well 
BM> as the
BM>  DR> originals of all of my reference letters. I wouldn't want to do 
BM> this
BM>  DR> if it were illegal.
BM> 
BM>  If you were showing examples of student's work to Jane or John Doe 
BM> on
BM>  the street there might be some privacy/legal implications.  However,
BM>  you are showing them (probably) to employees of the school system 
BM> the
BM>  kid attends - as such they theoretically could look at any student's
    True, but the original question dealt with putting these student 
documents in a _resume_, which presumably is something used in job 
applications unless otherwise stated (and he did not).
    If the resume is being used only within that school district, student 
work could be included.
    But if the resume is being used for job applications to other districts, 
no.
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