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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are ways you can make this work to keep your job, but it sounds like you don’t want to.

100 hours a year is only 2.5 hours a week (assuming 40-week school year).

Do you work full time or part time?  If full time, can you drop to 32 or 36 hours a week and then just volunteer at the school  one morning each week for a few hours?  If you work part time already, this volunteer requirement is nothing.

You drop off in the morning and then hire a nanny for the afternoon pick up & babysitting.  Get a nanny who can work on at least some of the days your daughter is off school so you don’t have to take them all off.  There is no reason your husband can’t take a few of the days off too.  I work for a 3-star admiral and he takes some leave.

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I was thinking the same thing.  Or 8 hours (slightly more) a month.  That's ONE saturday a month of volunteer work.  I don't believe your boss fired you over that.  Maybe because the move now means that OP can't rely on her DH at all for drop off/pick up and her job requires more than minimal travel (which she won't be able to do now that she has to drive her kid every single day)[/quote]

The job requires some travel. Usually one domestic trip a month and a few international ones a year. I was trying not to think about losing trips to some amazing places.

The problem is, I didn't want public school either. Some of the stories I'd heard were awful (kids not being able to talk at lunch?) and we wanted a bit more freedom. I thought we'd get that with a private school. Clearly I was wrong. Yes, the volunteer work bothers me a lot. I'm an adult and I hate being told what to do. I hate menial work. Yes, I understand that we have to do things we don't want to do in life, but so far, I managed to avoid that. It's a huge shift in my way of thinking and living.[/quote]

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