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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An absence is excused if a parent says it is. The parent is who calls the school. If the Admin (not the teacher) wants to request additional information they’re provided a note from the professional the parent selects to say the date the student will return to school. I don’t know where you get this idea that vacations are always unexcused absence. [/quote]

Well, the school system doesn’t agree with your “the parent calls all the shots” interpretation of the rules. I’m not seeing “vacation” below:

“Legitimate reasons may include: illness (including
mental health challenges), injury, legal obligations, medical procedures, death in the family, a doctor or dental appointment, religious or cultural observance, military obligation, deployment of a military family member or visit from a family member who has immediately returned from deployment, civic engagement (one school day per year for middle and high school) suspension except for certain violations as provided in the current version of Regulation 2601: Student Rights and Responsibilities, [b]or another reason acceptable to the principal or their designee[/b]. Parents or guardians and students are encouraged to prearrange excused absences when possible.”

Sure, as I stated upthread, you are welcome to LIE. And we’ll give your child the work, of course. But that’s on you and your conscience as you teach disrespect of rules and others to your child.

But you won’t get us to agree with your “I am LORD” attitude. Your interpretation is simply wrong, no matter what twist you try to put on it. [/quote]

Zero of the things you list require a geographical location. If I decide my child will visit a relative returning from the armed forces in the Caribbean, that’s none of your concern. Cultural observation takes place where the [b]parents[/b] say it does, including Europe.

And even if all of the above wasn’t true, the person who has to agree is still not the teacher.

So now that we agree, it is part of your job. We can agree it is not extra work. [/quote]

SO you want to creatively obscure the reason for a trip and [b]don’t want a teacher to do extra work and create a packet ahead of time for your child’s trip?[/b]

Cool- Lexia and ST math 30 minutes of each a day and check Schoology. No extra work involved at all. Have a great time on your “emergency trip!”[/quote]

No need for a packet, my kid will be learning more at Carnival. Any exams they miss will be made up following the school rules for makeup exams. I’m glad we’ve all agreed this isn’t some sort of extra special work.[/quote]

You are funny because you think every person is just like you and therefore you and your situation are the policy.  I guess you haven’t passed out of the egocentric stage of development.

[b]Again have a great time! Enjoy your emergency carnival![/b] [/quote]

The person using the word “emergency” is only you and Carnival is a cultural observance [b]in much of [/b]Europe in early spring. I hope you don’t teach any kind of European history.[/quote]

It definitely is not. Some of us would dress up on Mardi Gras some years in elementary the way kids do here for Halloween, but that was about it. But maybe it is a village tradition in the boondocks you come from.

--teacher raised in a large European country.[/quote]

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