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Originally Posted by georgiana
She's always been pretty weary about giving it out
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Originally Posted by Fawn Liebowitz
wary=cautious
weary=fatigued
Yes, I should have posted this in the grammar pet peeve thread.
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I thought she meant leery, alternatively spelled leary. Same meaning as wary, suspicious. I should have been an English teacher. . . or maybe not! lol
To the point of the OP, I have gotten much more assertive about not providing SS #'s than I used to be. When my youngest started kindergarten, I asked what the school needed it for and they couldn't tell me. I held them off for a few years, although somewhere along the line I must have provided it because they have it now (he's 12).
I don't find it unusual that organizations ask for the information, but I think it is fine to question why they need it. If they can't provide a good answer to that, and more importantly if they can't tell you the safeguards they use to protect it, I would hesitate a bit (e.g. do the forms sit under the registrar's bed for a month before they get put into the HQ database?)
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