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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I think you're missing a big opportunity here to teach your child about constructive civic action. The decision not to excuse students who walk out from detention was not made by the individual school administrators, it was made at the superintendent level and the individual school administrators don't have the authority to override that. So crow all you want about how the kids have made those administrators' lives more difficult, but you're targeting the wrong people here. If you daughter really wants to take this issue on, I would encourage her to sit down this afternoon and write a well-reasoned email to the superintendent's office explaining why she feels an exception should be made this event (as a way to guide her, you could point out that the superintendent's office has issued a statement explaining the decision, so a well-reasoned email would be one that responds directly to that statement).

If that doesn't change their minds on the detention, she could then decide to speak at the next school board meeting, [b]explaining why she feels this situation warrants an exception [/b]and asking that the detention be removed from the students' permanent records. Sure, this doesn't change that they had to serve the detention and one detention isn't going to make or break anyone's record, but it would be a way of continuing to stand up on the issue, and if the administration were to agree to remove this incident from students' records, it would be significant precedent for responding to future demonstrations.

Teach your child how to make a difference, not just how to send mommy running to the school to get him/her out of trouble.[/quote]

Does it? Why?[/quote]

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