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Originally Posted by thinkxingu
I started responding a few times earlier and got caught up shopping!
I'm all for kids taking days here and there to do cool things. The problem is that those days are added to others that students historically would not have taken.
For example, I have students who have taken days to visit colleges—great!—but who have also taken days for driving lessons/tests, doctor/dentist appointments (that most certainly could have been scheduled after school), birthdays, "mental health days," etc.
So, when the "special" days aren't planned for when taking the other days, absenteeism becomes a problem...but, as mentioned above, that's the culture (at least for American students—which is a whole other discussion).
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haha I’m glad you put “mental health days” in quotes, Think. I hope the school system sees them the same way.
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