NC: Kids' Social Security numbers on school postcards

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/education/story/226344.html

The Wake County school system accidentally sent out about 5,000 postcards 
with students' Social Security numbers printed on the front, a mistake 
that angered parents and will cost the district nearly $100,000 to remedy.

On Tuesday, Wake schools mailed about 15,000 reminders asking parents to 
specify if they want to keep their children in magnet or traditional 
calendar schools.

About a third of those cards had the Social Security numbers printed 
alongside the child's name - a holdover from recent years when those 
nine-digit numbers were used to identify students.

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