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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 9 year old DD's class has jut started their annual swimming unit in PE. The whole PE period is about 40 minutes. My DD has long, thick hair and it is quite uncomfortable for her to change into her swim suit, swim in the water (which is really quite cold) and get dried off (especially her hair) within this time period. She always says she doesn't have time to get dried off properly and is uncomfortable for the rest of the day. We swim a lot, including doing laps and practicing strokes, outside of school so I really don't see much of a benefit to her participating in the swimming at school. I let the school know, and both the classroom and PE teacher seemed less than pleased. Her PE grade will be lowered, which I don't care a lot about, but am just wondering if I am being unreasonable. [/quote]

Yes, you are being unreasonable. Try and find some other solutions that have been suggested in this thread. I totally get what you're saying in that its inconvenient, troublesome, and unnecessary - but welcome to school, work, and life!! She is not 3 or 4 years old. Bottom line, you are saying : your daughter has long hair which makes part of her school day for 9 weeks hard, SO, she should be allowed to circumvent the curriculum??? Surely, you must see how this is a very bad argument and bad idea. You are creating a snowflake that will feel the rules don't apply to her = entitled. Please don't. [/quote]

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