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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had multiple kids out last week for early spring break with MoCo rather than DCPS. Two had the audacity today to ask me to excuse them from a week’s worth of assignments. I looked them back and said, you have 24 hours. [/quote]

You’re being generous, too! You could have simply said no.

I think parents assume we’ll be extra lenient. After all, it’s the parents who decided to pull the kids; the students didn’t decide to miss class. Still, lines have to be drawn and some families are quite entitled.[/quote]

I understand some families traveling during school for various reasons.  What I really can’t tolerate is the entitlement- can I have what you are doing in class for two weeks while I go skiing? Then I give whatever I can in the form of worksheets and when they return they say ‘I didn’t know how to do any of the work. When can I meet with you to go over it?’  The entitlement to my time is frustrating to say the least.[/quote]

Personally, it would never occur to me to just take my kids out of school for more than, say, an hour or two for a vacation. One of my brothers lives in London, and it'd be a lot easier to visit him when his kids are on breaks from school, but those breaks don't typically line up with ours except in the summer and around Christmas -- so I deal with it and don't see him as often as I might like.

The idea that you'd not only pull your kids out of school just because it seems more convenient to you and then ALSO demand the teachers work with you to make it as frictionless as possible is just bonkers.[/quote]

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