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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You can still have your child miss 10 school days a year for such activities. That, combined with the many breaks and days off, equals many opportunities to travel or celebrate a life event.[/quote]

Correct, but the point was that there shouldn't be some travel that is more valid than other travel if we're talking about what could potentially be excused if the system ever changed to accommodate it.

But I would also like to be able to take those 10 days when I needed to without the additional warnings received along the way, but it is what it is. I understand how the school system works but it doesn't stop me from working toward potential solutions to what I happen to see are unreasonable blanket standards.[/quote]

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