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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And the already overworked teachers are now spending time catching these vacationers up.

I start teaching my AP classes on day 1. If you miss the first week of school, you missed 50% of the material for our first test. I receive emails every year from parents who expect me to stay after to tutor their kids or excuse them from the first test. It’s aggravating, especially because these are unexcused absences.

I don’t expect to get sympathy on DCUM, but hopefully a few “who cares?” posters can learn that the teachers who have to work harder care. [/quote]

You don’t “have” to work harder. Let them bomb the first test. [/quote]

Agreed you do not have to work harder.  And my sympathy that you have to continually reply to  peoole who think the world revolves around them.  My recommendation, template a standard response email, save a copy of the school calendar to your desktop along with the excused absence policy and your syllabus.   Then reply w/templates response, attach attach attach. [/quote]

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