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Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
smonster - Dec 08, 2011 2:46:30 pm PST #3912 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Stephanie - Dec 08, 2011 4:02:30 pm PST #3913 of 30001
Trust my rage
Do you all think it is okay for a kid to miss a week of school for a run of the mill vacation?
(Of course, there is more to that story. Joe wants to take the kids to Florida during their first week back after Christmas vacation. I think absent some special circumstance, vacations should happen during school vacation. I don't mind being wrong but in the world I grew up in, you don't just blow off school unless there is some sort of really special purpose to the trip.)
eta: oh, and of course, he asked the teacher of the kid in question who thinks "family time is important", but I disagree with her.
DavidS - Dec 08, 2011 4:07:42 pm PST #3914 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I would never let Emmett take an extra week vacation in the school year. He gets behind in Math and never recovers. That's happened twice.
sj - Dec 08, 2011 4:12:06 pm PST #3915 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Stephanie, I'm not a parent, but it sounds like a bad precedent to set with both the kids and with Joe.
Laura - Dec 08, 2011 4:13:36 pm PST #3916 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
I avoid missing any more time than necessary. We are only allowed to miss so many days of school and if we use them early there isn't any flexibility later. I have taken them out for family events, but then I worry about having days later.
Stephanie - Dec 08, 2011 4:25:49 pm PST #3917 of 30001
Trust my rage
He gets behind in Math and never recovers
Ellie is in the lowest reading group in her class. For whatever reason, it just hasn't clicked for her. I don't think she can afford a week off for this exact reason.
And yes, if she misses more than 10 days she is disenrolled. This would be 5 days plus 1 sick day from before, meaning she only has 4 days left. I just don't get it - it seems clear to me.
DavidS - Dec 08, 2011 4:33:59 pm PST #3918 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And yes, if she misses more than 10 days she is disenrolled. This would be 5 days plus 1 sick day from before, meaning she only has 4 days left. I just don't get it - it seems clear to me.
Yeah, it only takes one flu to eat up those four days.
JenP - Dec 08, 2011 4:46:48 pm PST #3919 of 30001
And yes, if she misses more than 10 days
Yikes, that would be my answer right there. Also, we never were allowed to take time off from school unless it was for being sick or something, I don't know, like a funeral, I guess. It just wouldn't have occurred to my parents to do that, I don't think. I don't have kids, so I don't know what I would've done, though I imagine the same as my parents.
Except it more than 10 days=disenrollment, then, no just for that reason alone, frankly.
Zenkitty - Dec 08, 2011 4:50:06 pm PST #3920 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I never got out of school for anything short of chicken pox. School is a lot more intensive now than when I was a kid, at least that's the impression I get. Hard to believe missing a few days is not a big deal.
ION, I may buy all my relatives this useful little item for Christmas. And myself.
Steph L. - Dec 08, 2011 4:50:34 pm PST #3921 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
When I was in high school, parents would pull their kids out for vacation, but a lot of the teachers would send work with them, and there was no bullshit on the expectation that it would be done and turned in complete on their first day back. (I don't think it was a commensurate amount of work as if they had been in class all week, but it wasn't just a token, either.)
In elementary school, it wasn't ever something that came up. Since I don't have kids, I don't even know how much work gets covered in one week of elementary school -- would it be so much that Ellie would fall behind, like Emmett with math?
(So -- I don't really have an answer to your question; just more questions.)