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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some of these replies are utterly ridiculous. I have friends who take their children out of Sidwell Friends for 2 weeks for trips to China, Russia and etc and guess what......... SF is totally ok with that because that child is required to come back and give a report on the cultural and social differences of the places they visited. As one who travels internationally for work and brings here children at least once a year this should be encouraged.

With that said if you are taking your child to North Carolina for a wedding or etc.....may raise some eye brows. [/quote]

Yes, because a loved one's life event whose date is set without our input is less important than an "enriching" vacation... personally I see the latter as having greater value even if it isn't as glamorous.

I personally hope that the policy can be changed to make reasonable allowances while making sure that children are well and accounted for. But it would need to be done in a way that wouldn't penalize "have nots" for excuses that were less valid than the "haves." Or in a way that would disqualify events based on important connections like family and lifelong friends because they wouldn't be "educational enough."

My child's education is important to me and I respect her classroom and teacher, but wish that there was also a reasonable recognition that school is not the total of our existence and that other priorities deserve recognition and time too.[/quote]

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