Rchellbell08
Earning My Ears
- Joined
- Feb 2, 2016
I suggest you follow what I bolded in your reply. There was zero hostility in my question. If you read some, that's on you. You can't read the "tone" of a post. I can't help that you thought it was an attack or otherwise hostile.
And why you feel you need to bring up your "right to free speech" is beyond me. Simply because I asked a question?
Anyway, it's all good.
When you say things that are blatantly asking me, personally "Do you expect teachers to know what they're doing the "3rd week of April" when you ask them in October?..." Yes, I will take it as you reading into my post a little too hard. Especially when your whole reply was asking question after question. Why the heck would I expect any teacher to go out of their way just for any one kid for a vacation? I was saying the teacher may possibly give the parents some kind of piece of mind their child won't be missing out on something important to their education if they were to know what was going on around the trip date... I sure as heck don't expect a teacher to stress over it and make sure the child is covered if there were any important curriculum missed.
In general, a parent should think about involving teachers about their child's absences and hopefully come up with solutions collectively to better a situation as such. And by the way, a teacher has a whole school year planned out, a curriculum, that they go by to keep a guideline throughout the year. Generally, a teacher will know, more or less, what will be covered during a certain part of the semester/trimester, what have you, and generally, the may be able to give some sound advice to whether missing certain days would be a good idea or not in the best interest of their child's education. I can't think of why a teacher wouldn't give any opinion or advice, if asked by a parent, what they think about missing the days in question. It is up to a parent to keep their kid's education a priority, but it is also their decision to make if they want to take a vacation with the family and miss a day or two of school, if done "responsibly".
Another thing, my "free speech" addition was to let you know that I, and everyone else, can voice their opinions, just as you and I both have, so it really shouldn't be "beyond" you that I threw that in there. Maybe to remind people that it's ok to have opinions and say what they think and feel. Of course there will be those that ask asinine questions regarding your thought process of how you came up with your post's conclusion, but mind you, it is just people talking and giving advice or opinions, not some aggressive debate over who is right or wrong, or why someone would post something that one may not agree with...
Your "tone" may have not been what I perceived, but I am trying to see it in a different light, and I just don't see it....maybe you could enlighten me of how it was supposed to sound?