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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids never had a local grandparent.  It’s never really been an issue, but you could check with the teacher and see if they think you or dh should attend instead.

Do all the kids really have living local grandparents? That would strike me as unusual, especially in the DMV, given how transient people are around here.  [/quote]

At small private schools very possible [/quote]

At our medium-sized private k-8, grandparents fly out for grandparents day. It’s a huge deal. It’s usually adjacent to Mother’s Day weekend, so often families are gathering anyway.

Usually only 2-3 kids per grade don’t have a grandparent or great aunt/uncle there. My DD has traditionally loaned out her grandparent to friends, as do others, so everyone ends up having a grandparent to walk with to the assembly and do activities with.

Last year my DD was really upset because she has one dead grandparent, one who is incapacitated and cannot travel, and one who has dementia and cannot leave memory care. Her healthy grandparent absolutely couldn’t rearrange things to be there and both that grandparent and DD were upset.

Her best friend knew about it and announced that DD was going to be sit with her grandparent for the assembly. And for the 1:1 activities, the favorite, young and fun teachers led a pull-out activity for kids who didn’t have a grandparent there that was a bit of a special privilege (doing a project in a normally restricted area of campus that “had” to happen that day). I imagine most schools do something similar.

DD came home happy and content. [/quote]

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