Re: Student password

I've "enjoyed" having the extra duty of managing the tech support
piece in three different districts. None of which had a problem with
my position having a record of teacher's passwords--makes life easier
to cure their problems quickly. One district has student passwords on
a main drive (limited access) --granted they are computer generated
ones of set length. They have a pattern for the username (which could
be used as the password) of the first 5 letters of student's last
name, first and middle inital and last 4 numbers from their student ID.

While I requsted staff passwords, I did not force it. Those that I
did get were kept locked up in a file that was not labled--Passwords.

On 9/09/09, LL Lady wrote:
> Thanks to all who responded. I don't find anything that tells me
> keeping the passwords is illegal or against our district's policy, so
> I will probably continue with our current procedure. I understand
> Kevin's concern completely. It has been my concern, too. Although I
> would never handle passwords this way in high school, we have not had
> a problem with it in middle school. The username is the student's id
> number. It seems as though the kids who would try to login with
> someone else's info are not usually the ones who have the skills to
> find and memorize a student's id number and birthday. I have been
> pleasantly surprised to have only about two minor incidents in four
> years! Thanks again!