We’re on day three of the stomach bug in our house. My daughter has missed school all week and there is seemingly no end in sight. I e-mailed her teacher this morning to see what work she’s missing and when I could swing by school to pick stuff up, but she replied, “Just have her rest and get better. It will be easy to catch her up when she gets back.”
Huh.
Back in the day, missing school meant a sibling lugging the contents of your desk home with a note written in your teacher’s precise handwriting, detailing all the work to have completed before returning. Sick or not, you had work to do, and you did it.
As a teacher I often sent work home with siblings of sick children, but rarely got anything back. Mostly the students viewed the work as a suggestion, something they could do if they had any spare time or energy. Eventually I just got used to it and had them make up the work when they returned to school.
Is this the trend or just my narrow little scope of experience? What’s going down with your child’s missed work when they’re down with the flu?
By Sharon Linde, Education Blogger for SmartParenting
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