Out of town visitors attending school for a day

[Anonymous]

This definitely happened when I was a kid.

As an adult, we moved and one of my kids’ friends was going to visit us. Their spring breaks didn’t line up 100%, so one of the days they were going to be here was a school day for my kids. I called to see if the visiting friend could go to school for the day, and they treated me like a crazy person. It’s too bad - those visits were fun!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes in 90s when I was in school. Kids would bring a visiting relative to school. I taught HS for 2 years and parents could pop in too and spend the class/day with their kid - it was actually a threat for the kids who didn’t behave.

I remember this too. One boy in 6th grade was really bad and his father came in and spent the day with him and told the teacher to call him if he ever made trouble again. He had a cowboy hat and a GUN IN A HOLSTER!!! This was 1997 in Michigan.

[Anonymous]

I never remember seeing this in upstate NY.

[Anonymous]

Are you 85?

[Anonymous]

My grandmother was a gym teacher at a public, rural early elementary. Every teacher with kids or grandkids on another calendar brought them to school. The rules were simple: kids couldn't disrupt the class, had to be occupied and couldn't be in a classroom with older kids. Teachers were happy to have middle/high school kids come help with giving tests kids missed, upper elementary would read quietly in the corner until recess, and on grade level just participated in class. Teachers normally didn't keep their kids in their own class, that way they wouldn't distract mom.

When we were 2-5, we had pictures done during the school's picture day, just didn't get grouped into a class. It was cheap, photographer didn't care, school was fine with it. We just weren't allowed to stay all day until 4-5 with the young 5s teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in MCPS. This was absolutely done. In my senior year, one girls boyfriend showed up in class. It was a bit odd as he was already in college, but there he was.

Never happened.

Sounds possible. In my MCPS 90s high school, this one girl brought her newborn baby for the day

[Anonymous]

When I was in 3rd grade there was a girl who came to our class maybe once or twice a month. Her parents were divorced and she mostly lived with her mom but her dad got long weekends twice a month and she would go to our school those days. This was in Ky in the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Where did you grow up? I've never heard of this in the 80s and 90s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This definitely happened when I was a kid.

As an adult, we moved and one of my kids’ friends was going to visit us. Their spring breaks didn’t line up 100%, so one of the days they were going to be here was a school day for my kids. I called to see if the visiting friend could go to school for the day, and they treated me like a crazy person. It's too bad- those visits were fun!

As they should. Teachers are not babysitters for random kids on vacation.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I did this visiting an extended family member in Nevada one year. She was a year behind me in school. She was 7th grade, I was 8th.

[Anonymous]

This happens in the book, Double Fudge, by Judy Blume

[Anonymous]

Doesn't happen today in the US. But I totally remember it from the 80s. So fun. Random cousins and family friends!

A friend's daughter was going to France for a week for spring break and when I asked what she'd be doing she said she'd probably just go to school with her cousins. So it still happens somewhere in the world!

[Anonymous]

20:42 here, this was in Seattle in the early 80s that I remember it.