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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was 24 my mom contacted my advisor, who then emailed me.  It was 1990, and I was out of the country doing research. I had email access, but did not have a phone.  I was in a Asia 12 hours out of sync with home timezone.

Calling home was not trivial:  I had to go to the post office, and wait for a phone.  My thinking was to delay the call from Sunday to Tuesday because Tuesday was my Parents 30th anniversary.  Only, I had no way to communicate that to my parents.  So, when I did not call on SUN, they panicked.  On Mon, they called my advisor, who emailed me.  I called them as soon as I could; woke them up.[/quote]

OP here- this is very similar to why my parents contacted the professor. I was doing research in a foreign country. My parents, who had never traveled out of the US, did not reach out to me about their concerns because they saw me as a child and the professor as the adult. They were worried about their 20 year old daughter being in a foreign country and thought I was being disobedient by going. I had my own funding and just thought I was being an adult.

No one talked about waiving FERPA rights back then. I'm so grateful.[/quote]

I think many, many, many, many people do not realize how FERPA is treated from the colleges' perspective - lawyers included. [/quote]

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