It Doesn't Take a Hacker To Invade Your Privacy takes

Parents expect their children to blurt out family secrets at inopportune moments. They may be less aware of one other way in which offspring are inimical to privacy: Information leaks out via the kids’ schools. A report by the Gartner Group says public schools “are a source of private information about parents and children that is poorly controlled and increasingly available online.” Part of the problem is that parents “usually do not think twice about disclosing private information about themselves or their children to their local schools.”