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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS was terrible when I had similar opportunities with my dad's career. Instead, because he's a physician, he just wrote us notes saying we were sick, so the absences were excused. This meant we could accompany him on several once in a lifetime experiences and believe me, those experiences were way more important and influential in our lives than things we were taught in school. (FWIW, we were also stellar students, who never received less than an A in any of our classes)[/quote]

You do realize that you put a burden on each of your teachers to facilitate you making up the work you missed right?  Yes, we all know you learned a lot traveling with your dad but that does not mean it does not create extra work on already over burdened teachers.  Yes I will give up my lunch so you can retake the test from 2 weeks ago that I have not been able to give back to your classmates yet because you have not taken it.  Yes I will come up with an extra written assignment just for you because you can not make up the bio lab you missed...  And yes there are 6 other kids that I am currently helping make up the work from when they were "sick" too.[/quote]

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