Reply to Taking 5 days off in 8th Grade AAP?

Forum Index » Advanced Academic Programs (AAP)

Reply to "Taking 5 days off in 8th Grade AAP?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I took my kids out for 3 days for a family trip.  They are the same ages as yours.  My 5th grader was unbothered.  But my middle schooler was hit harder than I expected. Because it was unexcused the teachers did not have to give her time to make up assignments.  Anything she turned in when she returned was marked late.  There were some assignments she was never given and marked late when she didn't turn them in because she didn't know.  It was stressful.  I didn't realize that unexcused was treated differently.   I would look at what part of quarter you are going.  If it is at the end and they miss a bunch of stuff that will be on the report card I would probably  not make my 8th grader go.  If it is the beginning of the quarter it would be easier to make the work, but the gradebook will look like all Fs for a minute while he does the missing work.
We will avoid taking the kids out again.  We learned out lesson, but it was an amazing trip and I am glad I didn't know how hard it would be to catch back up![/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics