Moms Talk: Are You Sometimes Skeptical Your Kid is 'Too Sick' For School?
What's your call when you're not sure whether to believe your child is really too sick for school? Are 'r & r' days ever justified?
There already are rumblings in this house about whether it's necessary to go to school both Thursday and Friday when the usual weeklong February vacation is cut short this week. It's assumed that some students at Ridge High School will be gone for ski vacations or other trips preplanned before those two days were put back on the school calendar to make up for time lost to Sandy. Needless to say, my sympathy runs from zero to almost zero on this subject. I note that it wouldn't kill my student to get a little reinforcement in his classes even if teachers must re-cover some of the same information when the lucky vacationers return next week. But I'm also listening with a jaundiced ear (if there is such a thing) to a slowly incubating sniffle…
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Linda Sadlouskos
2:10 pm on Thursday, February 21, 2013
I sometimes think that always being "connected" makes it really hard for today's kids to get the "down time" we used to be able to get just by sneaking off by ourselves once in a while... more ›