If the student chooses "all records" then yes, they can legally share all of it. Its up to the student just like its up to the patient in medical settings.
I don't think you understood what I was saying. There is still information that cannot be legally shared. You can't call up the school's health center for example and say "I saw this bill for this what was my student there for", etc; something to that effect even if not that exact same scenario.
I'm not saying the University can't share what information they've been given permission to. I'm just saying the Access the student gives is not for everything under the sun.
My alma mater, the Delegate form is for the following information:
Schedule only: view enrollment and course schedules for the current term.
Grades & Course History: view past semester course enrollment and officially posted grades for those courses.
Student Financials: includes access to the account balance, summary of current charges/payments, review of past activity, and view/print current and prior bills.
Student Financials 1098-T: grants access to current and prior year 1098-Ts. Students must grant consent to receive the 1098-T online before delegates are able to access this information in their delegate account.
Financial Aid: includes financial aid awards summary, satisfactory academic progress, scheduled disbursement dates, expected family contribution, cost of attendance, shopping sheet, and to-do lists.
Students may revoke access at any time.
Each of those things listed in
bold are categories the student can give access to. I could totally see a student thinking it would be much easier to give their parent access to the 1098-T form for tax purposes but not want their parent access to their grades. Same with the Financial Aid aspect. Expected Family Contribution can be important information from FAFSA. Or it can be as simple as giving the parent the knowledge of their class schedule so if something comes up they know they *should* be in English 101 from 9-10am MWF. I'm just saying I knew no one who did that unless they weren't actually telling the truth. But to your point times change so it could be the case that
now there's a higher percentage of students who give at least
some form of access.