Residents and patrons of a school are protected by a qualified privilege in criticizing a teacher for incompetence to a school board as long as the communication is in good faith and without malice.
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[Ques. 2] Parents and patrons of a school have a qualified privilege in disclosing information at school board meetings.
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[Ques. 3] Conditional privilege is essential in employee evaluations because public policy requires assurance of accurate employee appraisals.
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[Ques. 4] Gender research shows which of the following?
a. Boys and girls with learning disabilities have the same characteristics.
b. Clinics and schools identify four times more boys than girls who have learning disabilities.
c. Girls with learning disabilities are over-identified.
d. Girls with learning disabilities tend to be more aggressive than boys.
e. Boys are not identified as much as girls with learning disabilities.
[Ques. 5] Conveyance of truth about another person is not defamation.
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[Ques. 6] The First Amendment prohibits a public official from collecting damages for false defamation relating to his or her official conduct unless there is evidence of actual malice with knowledge of falsehood or reckless disregard.
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[Ques. 7] In the absence of malice, a school official is not liable to a teacher for performing the duties of his or her office.
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[Ques. 8] The left hemisphere of the brain does what?
a. controls nonverbal stimuli
b. reacts to and controls language-related activities
c. controls spatial skills
d. controls mechanical skills
e. controls eating
[Ques. 9] Under FERPA, parents have a right to appeal anything in a student's file that is considered incorrect, and if the school is not willing to delete the challenged material, the parents may request a hearing and/or provide a written statement to be attached to the challenged material.
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[Ques. 10] Under FERPA, each child's file must include a record of access, which must be signed by each staff member who withdraws that student's file.
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