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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know, students can decide to not show up and let the chips fall where they may. [/quote]

Not to show up where?

I'm a bit perplexed by some of the posts:

"lying to the parents to stay a bit longer at school" - why would my kid lie when he could easily say "Mom, I'd like to stay a day before heading home" and I would say "sure thing"?  I have no doubt that my son keeps a good chunk of his life private; why would I make him lie about silly stuff.

"find something to amuse themselves for a day" - of course my kid could do that quite happily (and he did), but he actually wanted to come home before midday on Thursday.

"worried about kids who can't..." - who is worried?

Really, this is a post about scheduling and [b]how annoying it is when ones time and money is not respected.[/b]

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This is a bit extreme. If a kid wants to come home a day or two early, by all means, buy tickets for Tuesday morning. Really, that is not out of the ordinary. Your kid is fully capable of telling the professor ahead of time that they will be missing class on 11/20 (tell them in September) and no professor who is reasonable and in their right mind will care. In fact, given how many kids don't announce their planned absences at all...or do so via email at midnight the day before...your kid will look like a freaking allstar for missing class responsibly. [/quote]

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