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re: What sort of stuff would you take your kid out of school for? (Temporarily)
Posted on 8/17/15 at 7:43 am to LateArrivalforLSU
Posted on 8/17/15 at 7:43 am to LateArrivalforLSU
School i teach at in Ohio doesn't have school the first 2 days of youth gun season
And from a teachers point of view it doesn't bother me if a student takes a vacation in the middle of the year unless it is a kid with poor grades that is already way behind all of their peers
And from a teachers point of view it doesn't bother me if a student takes a vacation in the middle of the year unless it is a kid with poor grades that is already way behind all of their peers
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Posted on 8/17/15 at 7:45 am to fr33manator
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And why couldn't the teacher just email the work home?
Why can't the parent log in to blackboard.com and keep up with their kids assignments? Up here, they're all in there.
Posted on 8/17/15 at 7:50 am to VABuckeye
We use RenWeb but it's probably similar
Posted on 8/17/15 at 8:26 am to yellowfin
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We use RenWeb but it's probably similar
God I love RenWeb. I can meet my son at football practice that day and on his first water break be he comes over knowing it's coming. I be like "You got an 84 on a math Quiz?"
This post was edited on 8/17/15 at 8:26 am
Posted on 8/17/15 at 4:35 pm to fr33manator
I allowed my son to take off school for many reasons. Even as a first grader, he knew he could miss up to 20 days of school without failing and he was determined to take all 20.
I thought it was pretty clever that he had that figured out and kept track so I let him do it. Some days he went to work with me, some days we went on vacations, some days I had the day off work so we hung out together.
As for him missing out on any important schoolwork, he was already in the 99.9 percentile academically so he wasn't missing much. His teachers were not concerned about his absences either. They knew that he made straight "A"s and always was at the top of the class in standardized testing.
It all just depends on the kids, the kid's schoolwork, how well they are doing and the type of parents/teachers they have.
As a New Orleans public school teacher, I had female students who took the day off to get their hair braided and their weaves done. Apparently this is an all day process
I thought it was pretty clever that he had that figured out and kept track so I let him do it. Some days he went to work with me, some days we went on vacations, some days I had the day off work so we hung out together.
As for him missing out on any important schoolwork, he was already in the 99.9 percentile academically so he wasn't missing much. His teachers were not concerned about his absences either. They knew that he made straight "A"s and always was at the top of the class in standardized testing.
It all just depends on the kids, the kid's schoolwork, how well they are doing and the type of parents/teachers they have.
As a New Orleans public school teacher, I had female students who took the day off to get their hair braided and their weaves done. Apparently this is an all day process
This post was edited on 8/17/15 at 4:36 pm
Posted on 8/17/15 at 4:49 pm to fr33manator
Family Vacation - 2-3 days
Hunting trip/wedding - 1 day
funeral - 1 day unless it was a close relative too far away to drive in a day.
I think the schools acting like you are a bad person for missing school and trying to make threats (weak as they are) is stupid.
Hunting trip/wedding - 1 day
funeral - 1 day unless it was a close relative too far away to drive in a day.
I think the schools acting like you are a bad person for missing school and trying to make threats (weak as they are) is stupid.
Posted on 8/17/15 at 4:59 pm to fr33manator
We have taken my stepson on vacation for up to a week in October when he was middle school aged. He used Skype to join a couple classes and emailed the teacher for questions. The class full of kids was more interested in where he was and what it looked like than anything else. The teachers asked if he would Skype in, but it wasn't required. We use renweb too, but don't take family vacations during school anymore because in general it's just too stressful to miss a week of school for the older one. That being said the boys are going to South Texas over Labor Day and he'll miss one day. Both the junior and the first grader almost never miss school for being sick.
Posted on 8/17/15 at 5:22 pm to fr33manator
My parents would surprise my sister and I by showing up and pulling us out on a Thurs/Fri to take us on some weekend trip. That happened about once a school year. They'd also periodically take us out to go do something interesting. See a speaker, go to an event, stuff like that.
I was away at college by then, but I remember my dad and I discussing that he would have taken me to DC when Reagan died for the state funeral events if I was still in HS when it happened.
It's probably harder to do stuff like that now, but I will if I can.
I was away at college by then, but I remember my dad and I discussing that he would have taken me to DC when Reagan died for the state funeral events if I was still in HS when it happened.
It's probably harder to do stuff like that now, but I will if I can.
Posted on 8/17/15 at 5:23 pm to fr33manator
I remember parents checking out kids when I was in middle school for the Black History program. Not sure if that still happens.
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