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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ah okay then yes she was right to be mad. You didn’t follow the rules.

Imagine if your employer violated an employment law and said “but it was an emergency...”

-HM who would have offered to take the futon and put the kids on the couch [/quote]

This![/quote]

So to get this straight ... there's an emergency power outage.  Family comes up with backup plan to go somewhere else and includes AP.   The choices are they all cram into one bedroom and the AP sleeps on a futon OR AP gets a bedroom for herself and HF all crams onto the futon/floor?  I see nothing wrong with option 1.  The AP program is "on par" -- they are members of the family for the year.  Yes, they get their own bedroom AND THEY HAVE ONE AT HOME.  But when the power goes out for one night, it's an emergency.  There have been plenty of posts on here of APs sharing a room with host kids on vacation ...why is that OK and this is not?

The sanctimony on here gets out of control at times.  Let's all be reasonable.  [/quote]

Reasonable is giving the AP the bedroom.  Mom gets the couch, kids get the futon.  Or mom gets the futon, kids get the couch.  Or kids sleep on sleeping bags, blankets, whatever on the floor in the living room and pretend it’s camping.

It’s called following the rules.  Alternatively, since they should have an emergency fund (and OP classed this as an emergency), they can elect to pay for a cheap motel room.  Whatever they choose, FOLLOW THE RULES.  I don’t know why this is so hard...[/quote]

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