[gd357]

fabs, I might have missed 5 or 6 days a year in high school. It just so happened that most of them coincided with deer season. I'm not saying that I think absenteeism is good, I'm just saying that my priorities were in order. I didn't like high school, but it did teach me a lot about putting up with people and places you don't like to accomplish a goal. As far as how much school one can afford to miss is really dependent on the individual student. I could have missed 20% of high school and probably still carried a B average. The problem is, they have to make the rules to cover the slowest student, not the fastest. I didn't like it, but I lived with it. The system ain't perfect, but it's necessary for public schools.

gd