DVI reveals shocking truth: parents are allowed to see their children's test papers

The Data State Inspectorate has been forced to explain a shocking truth to parents - they have the right to see their children's test papers! The inspectorate has received complaints about schools that refuse to issue copies of test papers, as if they were state secrets, hidden deeper than in Karosta's basements, where tsarist naval officers once stored their secret maps.

Schools try to justify this refusal with personal data protection. Yes, that's right - the school believes that a teacher's note saying 'incorrect' is such sensitive information that it cannot be shown even to the child's parents. In Riga, they've probably already figured out that grades are also personal data and need to be encrypted.

'I wanted to see why my son got a D in math, but the school said it was the teacher's personal data,' says local mom Inese. 'They hide those test papers better than Karosta once hid the tsar's naval charts.'

The EU court ruled in 2017 that a student's answers are their personal data, but the teacher's notes about these answers are also personal data. So a test paper is a doubly secret document - both student and teacher personal data on one sheet! Apparently Brussels hasn't heard that parents usually want to know how their child is doing in school.

The inspectorate now explains that students and their parents have a legitimate interest in learning about performance. Thanks for the reminder - I was starting to think I had no right to know whether my child can read!