SC>> You are talking about high school here, correct? I know here
 SC>> there isn't a choice of classes at the elementary school level.
 SC>> I'm not sure there was much of a choice of teachers at the high
 SC>> school level. Maybe a second teacher taught the same course, but
 SC>> you didn't get to choose unless there was a problem.

 DC> No, there are different allowable curricula.  They ended up
 DC> taking what amounts to Basket Weaving 101.

I guess every state has their own laws on this.


 SC>> That is where the school should have stepped in. It is illegal
 SC>> anywhere for kids to miss that much school. Here the parents
 SC>> could be arrested for the kid not attending school. One woman
 SC>> actually spent time in jail for it.

 DC> Again, not in this state.  It was termed "an excused absense".

Oh ok. She did inform the school the kids would be out then??? That would be
acceptable here too. I do know that if a kid is absent for any reason a certain
amount of days though they have to hold the kid back in the same grade. That
would be excused or non-excused absents. The only way to get around that is for
the parents to get a tutor for the kid to do the school work while they were
out.

Sharon

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