10/7    In practice, how long are HIGH SCHOOL transcript kept? I'm asking
        because I'm wondering if people can dig up my shady past.
        I was a bad kid.
        \_ I would doubt that they are ever destroyed. What would you
           do about it in any case? Try not to worry too much about
           things you have no control over.
        \_ Pretty much irrelevant once you have your degree, a job, and
           a decade between you and it, unless you want a job with the
           FBI, in which case they're going to get more info from your
           former schoolmates than your school is likely to share anyway.
           \_ what if I get into politics and someone digs up my transcript
              and history of shady things and post it online?
              \_ You can preemptively post your past at the beginning of your
                 political career.  Plus you can use your coming-clean and
                 apparent "rebirth" as a selling point.  --- !PP
              \_ If you get into politics and all it takes to get people to
                 vote *against* you is your high school transcript, then you
                 have provided utterly no reason for them to vote *for* you.
                 \_ #1 mistake in politics: ignoring emotional appeals to
                    Americans.
              \_ If Obama can hide his Harvard college transcripts this long,
                 then I would imagine you would be able to keep your high
                 school transcripts secret.
              \_ Repeat of previous answer: they're going to get more info
                 from your former schoolmates than your school is likely
                 to share.
                 \_ my schoolmates love me, but my teachers hated me.
                    so I guess I just need to wait eh?          -op
                    \_ Well, let's just say you don't want to run on
                       what people thought of you in school, then.