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Absolutely you should call the school. Start with the teacher AND the principal. If the teacher is helping a friend find contacts through her students, the principal needs to be aware. It is not acceptable practice, and the principal should put a stop to it.
If there is not an adequate explanation (and apology) call someone at the district administration level. Most districts have someone assigned to "community relations" type duties, although they could have a different title. Keep asking till you find the right person. If you do not get assurances that this type of scam will not be allowed in the future, I would recommend writing a formal letter of information to your district Superintendent AND school board. Most districts have policies prohibiting this type of scam, and just need to be made aware of the practice, so they can put a stop to it in the future.
Also, I think that you should report the insurance company to the BBB in your area. Multiple phone calls, repeatedly after asking them to stop, is harassment.
If this sounds harsh, perhaps it is. However, when you start getting more phone calls and junk mail from all the businesses the insurance company sold your personal information to, you will see why it is so important to put people like these on notice, and to protect our children and ourselves from unscrupulous businesses.
Good luck!
sounds like a scam to me. don't buy insurance from someone over the phone that you don't know. go to someone from a company and talk to them face to face. if they keep calling you, you can file for harassment and write to the Better Business Bureau.
I think you definitely should call the school, and feel free to report the company both to the Better Business Bureau and your state Insurance Department. I believe the school (or outside party) selling your information is illegal.
I used to be an insurance broker, and we were extremely restricted on the kind of information we could share, even with a company or other internal party. We would have been in for major trouble for sharing personal information with an outside third party. We even had to have an employee's written permission before running a DMV report used for underwriting purposes only, and we had to have a client's written permission before using various application information on them, for their own policy. Fingerprinting consents are supposed to be restricted information, as it is personal and should be protected by law.
Schools, as professional (or government) entities, are bound by similar laws not to share their students' and students' families' private information. Of course, it could also be that your grandson's school made a poor choice of outsourcing the fingerprinting to an unethical party - in which case you should get all the details of the outside company and raise cain. Either way, your information should not have been shared, and the offending party probably shared everyone else's info as well. Not cool.
I'm going off of my best guess, please don't take what I say as gospel truth, but I believe this is illegal (or at least extremely unethical). I would go straight to the administration of the school and offer to have them speak with your attorney if they can't explain the situation to your satisfaction. But that's me :-)
I would contact the school superintendent and arrange a meeting with the people that did the fingerprinting to find out where this is actually going and what hazards it could pose.
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