When my kids were in school, we expecterd A/B Honor Roll. When they were young, being able to exempt finals ment going to 6 Flags instead of school.

Later, as they got into Middle and High School, my wife kept up with sick days and total days allowed out. As long as grades stayed up, time could be taken off.

It worked for us. Both kids on Honor Roll and got scholarships.

I would visit the principal and in private that if this fine went forward that I would find him with my friend Lou (louiville Slugger, wood of course). If things didn't turn out to suit me I would follow thru. Never break a promise. Never make a promise that you don't keep.

It might not work out to suit me, but the next guy wouldn't have the same problem.

One of the problems today is that public figures think that they can do as they damn well want and you cand do s..t. Well, show them the light. If you don't take physical action, take legal action. Sue the bastard! It's you right. You don't have to have a reason. Just make one up and sue him. Money talks. Make it too expensive to fight. A suit aginst him personally, not the school or the local government, will make him have to respond with legal fees. He has violated the childs civil rights.

Enough trouble from concerned individuals will ruin his chances for promotion.

Classic Why dont you hit em with a subject called Conservation Biology. This was a core subject in my Diploma in natural resource mangemement, in laymans terms its the study of the interaction of Inaminate objects(Rocks=Geology) and living objects(Plant and animal). It also covers the interactions between animals
(Predator and Prey, Symbiotic relationships etc). Also it alks about Humans interaction with these different cycles and how those cycles can be altered with intervention etc. It also emphasises the importance of controlling pest animals for the conservation of native animals. The controll of weed species for the conservation and viability of native plants(Flora). Basicly terms the interaction of floran and fana too. knowing what a bear, deer or some other native animal eats is learn about interation in nature.

I hope this would help.:)

7 absences, excused (which is doctor's note and/or WRITTEN note from home)and unexcused combined. If ya git any more than that..yer butt is in the pokey. Simple. Period. End of discussion.

So what winds up happenin? Ya send yer kid to school sick so the other kids can git sick, and then they can give it back to yer kid 2 weeks later. friggin ludicrous.

Sheesh I used to go hunting twice a year on a sick note from the doctor. But as a student who handed every assignment in, myteachers wouldnt give 2 hoots if I went interstate to hunt pigs and othe critters. The teachers recognised I needed to spend time with my father and also they saw it helped combat the ild depression I had onset in may last two years of highschool as the workload increased 2 fold.

In those last wo years I would take a fortnight off before the exams twice a year to study in a conducive environment and to hunt to clear away the cobwebs up top. I wasnt the only kid who did this.:)

Amzing .
geez most of my missed days in school were cause my dad took me hunting and when my kids get a little older you bet they will miss some school. when you think about it kinda is educational, how did our ancestor survive. gee coulda it be hunting and fishing. wow the more ithink about it that ticks me off.

Well, my sister got a lawyer and the hearing should be scheduled for later this summer. I'll keep everyone posted.

Ding ding, in this corner a stupid over zelous school principal, in this corner............:D

Classicvett363,

Tell your sister "way to go". I hope she fires the principle when she owns the school. Tell her to use some of the money from the settlement to send her kid on a nice guided hunt. They can take the principle's car.