Context: Long story short - I got permanently dismissed from student teaching & it was a situation I feel was unfair and that I wasn’t given due process in the situation. I contemplated legal action but decided against it.

During this, I appealed the decision to the dean. My appeal was somewhat successful. She told me I could go through 280 hours of remediation and possibly student teach next fall but later went back on her word and refused to supply details such as as to what exactly this time would consist of and how I would be assessed. The whole thing seemed sketchy. I decided not to pursue this and to transfer somewhere else.

My situation now: I am a part of my school’s mentorship program. This program matches alumni of the school (who sign up to mentor) with current students. I was matched with my mentor over a month ago. We’ve never met. We have emailed and texted a little bit prior. Several weeks ago, I texted her and explained the situation I was in with being dismissed from student teaching trying to appeal to the dean and she did not respond. Later, I discovered that the dean is her mother and my mentor is the dean’s daughter.

This week, I got an email from the director of the mentorship program stating that the dean told her I was no longer student teaching and asking what this meant for mentorship. I am upset with the dean for a number of reasons and now for this. I want her to stop discussing me and my educational record (withdrawing from student teaching is on my transcript) with other people. I don’t think I want to sue, just curious if I would even have a viable case if I change my mind in the future. Would my mentor (her daughter) and the dean discussing my educational record be a ferpa violation? Is the dean discussing my educational record with the mentorship director (who I think didn’t need to know) a ferpa violation? Is there any other way to get her and her daughter to stop discussing me with each other and with other people? This school has done enough to hurt me and I just want them to leave me alone.