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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it interesting that the default response seems to be:  "No, why would the school work with you on sport-related absences?"

Maybe because schools aren't prisons?  And parents are able to see how their kids are doing and work with schools on flexibility (IF the child is excelling and not struggling)?  No one is suggesting the school do extra work other than possibly send homework, lists home... Sure it wouldn't be fair to ask for special tutoring or extra attention for absences, but if a child is excelling and the parent willing to put in extra work to make sure things are tracking...why not allow for exceptions in some circumstances?

This is just common sense- and this is why so many parents end up home-schooling, because of these attitudes of unflexibility.  The market is speaking, in terms of people fleeing public schools for private or home-school.  Not this is this the main reason, but it's part of it.  Public schools would be wise to think of how to bring people in, not push them away, such as with part-day options for home-schoolers, or approved flexible options for elite athletes or gifted kids.  (Granted Arlington public certainly has the opposite problem of too many students, not too few - but in other parts of the country, people are exiting public schools...)

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OP asked about having her dd leave school a "couple of hours early" for a "few days a week".  That is a huge amount of time and would require alot of coordination from the teacher for just one child.  I don't think many people would consider that fair to either the teacher or the other kids in the class to divert the teacher's resources that way.  [/quote]

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