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Bright 2nd grader & school truancy / part-time home-school?
Sounds like you have a good situation. Our school doesn't mind if it's a
once-in-a while thing , but to take a child out once a week for the whole school year is a bit much. My job is about the best I can have at this time, my boss's wife is an assistant principal at a high school so he has no problem with me leaving to go to a conference, pick up a sick child (in fact all my co-workers know the sound of the nurses voice !) "Jenrose" wrote in message s.com... "dejablues" wrote in message ... "Vicki" wrote in message news Today we received a warning letter for truancy for our 2nd grader. The principal said she was concerned about dd's absences. I am not concerned about dd's absences--she is bright, she knows the material [she's missed five days this month, but received 100 on her test for materials covered.] I don't think the teacher is concerned. But the principal said dd is only allowed 5 excused absences per semester. I'm not happy about the possibility of legal sanctions for keeping dd home (she was sick this month, but I wouldn't hesitate to take her out of school for other things we feel are important.) You are teaching your daughter that it is OK to skip out on things that she *has* to do in order to do things she (or you ) *wants* to do. sigh My daughter's school doesn't even blink if a kid misses a day for something the parent thinks is important. If kids need to leave early for a music lesson, they bend over backward to make it easy. They're being taught to balance priorities in their lives, and it just so happens that for most of the kids, they love school and school is a high priority and they don't want to miss it for anything. Some kids miss occasionally for the start of an SCA event, for example, or a major family trip, or whatnot. But you know, in real life, people GET to make special plans to rearrange their lives around the occasional special event or opportunity. If my daughter was doing such a **** poor job of educating her that it didn't feel like a missed day would even matter, I wouldn't mind pulling her now and then either. As it is, she loves school, hates missing a day, and we have to browbeat her into missing once in a while for things where it just doesn't "work" for us to send her to school that day (i.e. when we go to a special once-a-year event for the weekend and must leave Friday.) But the school and her teachers don't mind. Funny thing... I found a job myself where the day they hired me they said, "We know you're a parent and we want you to know that your family comes first." I can miss a day "just because" and not lose my job--they know I'll meet my deadlines and they know that flexibility is one of the reasons I stay there. I can show up late or leave early. I insisted on finding a job where my family COULD come first. My daughter's school succeeded in making going to school "the reward"... so that they don't HAVE to punish people outrageously for missing. Most people just don't want to miss! Jenrose |
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