Can a parent, in a FOIP request, receive a copy of their child’s examination paper?
• The answers to examination questions are a part of the student’s educational history and are personal information (section 1(n)(vii)). However, if the examination paper is going to be used again in the near future and the school board can document this fact, then the questions may be severed from the record before releasing the answers to the student (section 4(1)(g)). • Order F2002-012 contains the first consideration of section 4(1)(g). In this Order, an applicant requested a copy of her son’s English 10-h final exam questions and her son’s responses with notations resulting in his final mark. The school board released her son’s responses, but withheld the exam questions, instructions and reading passages on which the exam questions were based. The school board submitted that the exam questions, instructions and reading passages were excluded from application of the FOIP Act by section 4(1)(g), the exclusion for a question that is to be use on an examination or test. • The Commissi
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