The purpose of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is to:

A. Allow school counselors to access students' grades.

B. Give school principals the right to discuss students' behavioral problems with their parents.

C. Ensure that surveys do not ask school children to provide sensitive information about their parents.

D. Provide parents certain rights over their children's educational records.

The correct answer is D.

Explanation:

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) is a federal law that ensures that parents have the right to access their children's education records, the right to request that the records are amended if necessary, and the right to have their opinion registered over the disclosure of personally identifiable information that may be in those records. When a student turns 18 years old or enters a tertiary or postsecondary institution regardless of their age, the rights that were previously afforded to the parent under FERPA are then transferred to the student who is now considered "eligible". Therefore, any information that is obtained through a third party orally or has through personal knowledge or that he or she personally observed is not protected under FERPA as this information was not derived from educational records.