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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I were a teacher I’d be incredibly pissed by this disrespect.

“Because we are richer and more important than you and don’t respect your classroom calendar, we are taking a longer vacation than the school calendar dictates.”

They can make it up whatever way they figure out. Teacher needs not make concessions.[/quote]

What if the teacher sent YOU that email about taking vacation?[/quote]
They’d plan for a sub, I guess? Which is what I’m trying to do, plan. How, as a teacher, do you suppose we make up the work without involving you? I mean no disrespect and I’m asking for no special concessions, but if you’re printing the worksheets anyway, why can’t one be printed for my kid also? Aren’t you printing for the whole class anyway? I guess I’m confused. I appreciate all your replies.[/quote]

The answer OP is your kid doesn’t make up that work. Furthermore, you seem confused about the purpose of the work. The work isn’t how they learn. Being there for the teaching and practice and reinforcement is how they learn. The work is how they show us whether they mastered the concepts we were teaching them. Even IF your kid got a stack of worksheets when they got back, they missed the learning part. That’s your choice, you have the right to make it, but we the teachers can’t take kids aside every time they choose to miss days and then give them that individual learning they missed. So just understand, yes you have the right to choose to have your child miss days. The gaps that will result because they were not there are your issue to address though and if they exist, that’s not our fault. And handing you work to be done on concepts they weren’t there to learn is pretty pointless. [/quote]

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