Part Nine: Why Nobody Ever Told Me Anything

For four years I asked what had happened to the other boys and for four years I was told, in various polite formulations, that they could not discuss it.

I took that as evasion.

I took it as a school closing ranks around its own convenience.

It is not evasion.

It is federal law and it is correct and I was wrong about it for fourteen years.

Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, a parent has a right to inspect and review their own child’s education records.