If they go to Thursday night session, then no reason they can't go to school on Friday.

 

I guess it would depend how far they have to drive.

I guess it would depend how far they have to drive.

 

True, if its only an hour or 2. It is no different than going to a UK night game.

Your education is far more important than basketball, however, more is learned outside the classroom than inside it. I took my kids every year, age 4-19. Most years they were the only days they missed.

Funny, some of my teacher friends have been griping on FB about kids missing class for unexcused absences.

 

I still remember my friend's dad pulling him out of class for an appointment with Dr. pepper. :lol:

Then I overheard a teacher tell the students that was bogus, school comes first.

 

I'd tell the teacher he/she was bogus.

Look, I'm not advocating missing school all the time. I do think it's a bit pretentious of a teacher to think that a kid should fail their class because they dared miss something on the day of a test some random week in March. It's one thing if the kid is always missing and is falling behind, but it's not like the kid can't work extra hard to catch up and have the teacher work with them on making things up so long as they were honest and didn't make a habit of asking off. I hate when I missed class (even in college) and was just straight up honest about it instead of making up some "feel sorry for me" excuse like others would do. Sometimes I came out ahead just for taking it head on, other times I didn't. It evened out.

 

I'm very lassiez-faire in the organizational styles that I think are most effective as well, so maybe I'm the wrong person to ask. I think that if a kid is able to go to an event with his family, have their fun, and still come back and do well on the exam they missed, that they'll be fine. No need to punish them just because they dared miss your class for a sporting event that tons of people across the state are going to miss work for. Associate school with nothing but work and it isn't a very appealing experience.

I still think that if this is a Kentucky school event, and it is because it is the KHSAA, then the state should plan ahead so that there are no classes on those days.

 

If kids are off school on election days, (and they can't even vote), then why not be off for the state tourney?

I still think that if this is a Kentucky school event, and it is because it is the KHSAA, then the state should plan ahead so that there are no classes on those days.

 

If kids are off school on election days, (and they can't even vote), then why not be off for the state tourney?

 

Blame it one Title IX. And bass fishing. And soccer.

 

Seriously though, I'm not a fan of how Title IX has changed the schedules. It may not be PC to say, but you can't force people to watch a sport, no matter what timeslot you put it it. If I want to see the girl's game, I'll go see it because it's quality basketball, not because it's on a Friday instead of a Tuesday.

 

If you let out school districts for the Boy's tourney, then people will want out for the Girl's tourney as well (and they have a decent argument, even if it's not one I'd personally subscribe to in all instances).

 

Again, I'm obviously not being PC at all by saying that.

 

In the first instance, I just think it hurts both programs by taking money out of the school's athletics departments. Eighty plus percent of the crowd at a girl's game on a stand alone night would be there anyway. It's really hurt the attendance at some of the regional tournaments that I've noticed personally.

 

I think consumers vote with their dollars and they'll go watch what they want to see without having someone have to tell them what that is.

I missed Wed-Fri every year from 4th grade until I graduated and never really fell behind on any school work! It was worth it' date=' nothing like the sweet 16![/quote']

 

I made my first State Tournament when I was eight (in 2nd grade) because our high school team played in it. They also played in it when I was in the 4th, 5th & 6th grades and my parents took me to those tournaments also. When I was in the 6th grade the tournament was played at Freedom Hall and somehow my parents and got separated at the end of a session so I got a cab and had him take me to the hotel we were staying at (told him my parents would pay the fare).

 

I consider such trips truly "life experiences" worthy of missing school and learning other things that being at such an event teach you.

 

Of course, the primary thing it taught me was that I loved the Boys State Tournament and as a result I have probably made it to a huge number of them. If my alma mater happens to make it, then so much the better (since I keep score, get a floor pass and get to sit down on at the official scorers table).

 

I consider such trips truly "life experiences" worthy of missing school and learning other things that being at such an event teach you.

 

Reminds me of a Boy Meets World episode when Corey's dad lets him stay up late to watch the Phillies in the World Series. At first Mr. Feeney was against it but then comes around and realizes that sometimes experiences with our kids are just as important as the education they would receive in the classroom that day.

I still think that if this is a Kentucky school event' date=' and it is because it is the KHSAA, then the state should plan ahead so that there are no classes on those days. If kids are off school on election days, (and they can't even vote), then why not be off for the state tourney?[/quote']

 

I see what you're saying, and I have no problem with a parent allowing their child to moss a day or two...but I can't support the entire state canceling school due to the Sweet 16.

 

If that was the case, school would have to be cancelled for the girls' tournament, the swim meets, baseball championship, etc.

Fill out the EEO form. Go to the Henry Clay Museum, the KY Horse Park, make it an educational trip too. It's an excused absence, make up the work when they get back.

I hate this crap. We have becomes just so freaking soft as a society.

 

I missed every Friday for the State Football Finals and every Friday of the Sweet 16 growing up. I still do, and going again this Friday.

 

....that teacher needs to get a life.

 

That kid is going to remember being at the Sweet 16 with his Dad/Mom/Both and friends more than he will her class.

 

I heard NBC's Bob Costas address this once upon a time; he was talking about how he can remember his elementary school teacher putting one of the Mets World Series games in the 60's on the radio......said he couldn't tell you one thing that went on that year in her classroom, but he remembers everything about that day.

 

Some of these academic Nazis people are so out of touch with reality.

I see what you're saying, and I have no problem with a parent allowing their child to moss a day or two...but I can't support the entire state canceling school due to the Sweet 16.

 

If that was the case, school would have to be cancelled for the girls' tournament, the swim meets, baseball championship, etc.

 

Not really. Everything isn't equal, either. But, I get what you're saying.

 

It's like the small minority that gripes bc their Speech and Debate team didn't get a school wide pep rally/town parade for winning their state championship, but are mad at the football or basketball team bc they got one.

 

...know why? Congrats, but sorry...nobody gives a rip. Don't try to make it out to be more than what it is.

 

I'm a football first guy, but even I understand that our state football championships come nowhere close to the importance of the Sweet 16 (for now).

I see what you're saying, and I have no problem with a parent allowing their child to moss a day or two...but I can't support the entire state canceling school due to the Sweet 16.

 

If that was the case, school would have to be cancelled for the girls' tournament, the swim meets, baseball championship, etc.

 

Entire state would be a stretch, but many school districts within a 75 mile drive of Louisville have built in No-School days for Oaks Day.

 

Not much difference.