What I've found is that we spend a lot of time keeping information confidential that the kids tell everyone anyway. I used to call kids up to my desk to give them their average, and the ones who failed would scream out the grade in a confused voice, thus telling everyone that their average was a 52 or whatever. Last year my school had a total of 2 kids fail a particular portion of the state test. If I were them, I'd be so embarresed (It's had to blame it on the test being hard when everyone else in the entire school passed) I wouldn't tell anyone but my parents, but both of them told all of their friends before the day even let out. One of them came back to see me (I am now a counselor), crying because her friends got mad at her and teased her for failing. I was like "Well, why did you tell them????"
