So you scraped together the money to pay tuition for your child's first year in college, and you would like to see a report card when spring semester ends this month.

Sorry. You can't have that.

And don't ask the school for information about your child's disciplinary record, trips to the health clinic or just about anything else that is part of his or her student record. The schools are going to send you back to your child for that information, too.

"We were surprised how little information we received from the school about our son," said Dave Roland, a member of the Parents Advisory Council at Duke University and the father of a freshman there. "We were joking the other day that paying tuition is like spending the money to buy a Lexus every year -- but you never get to drive it."

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