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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP since your daughter is already an accomplished swimmer and if the reasons stated are the only issues-I’d push for allowing her to sit out or being given more time to dry her hair. Some really angry people on this forum!! [b]Also-I would question why her grade has to be lowered. [/b]

Nine year old girls-whether this is an all girls school or not are also in the first throes of puberty (one of my DD friends started her period over summer so was 9y 7m old): just another layer to consider.

If she has a habit of not wanting to follow activities-that’s a different issue.[/quote]

Okay, that's just bullshit.  If you decide that your daughter should not participate for a *non-health-related reason*, then she takes the grade cut.  That's how the world works.  If she wants to opt out, she can accept the consequence.  [/quote]

Actually that sounds like a good deal.  I went to school in another country and I didn't do PE ever for no other reason that I despised it. I just didn't want to do it.  So my parents arranged for me to not do it.  I took a grade hit on PE but was a straight A student in everything else.  For six years. Since everyone knew PE is a bullshit grade, no one cared. I personally think it's a form of violence to make children do physical things they don't feel like doing [/quote]

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