Okay, DD (14) has been selected to take part in a series of workshops culminating in a performance at the end of May - is part of a French workshop - they'redoing a performance in French to other Yr 9 students - I am all for it as I feel it would do DD's confidence a lot of good and involves other things such as performance arts, sound recording and prop making - it's just that she will be missing (over the course of a month and a half) the equivalent of 6 whole school days work plus the odd hour here and there for rehearsals and workshops with staff from other schools etc. PLEASE don't get me wrong, I am all for it in principle, especially for her confidence and more importantly, she does want to do it (not strongly but does want to do it nevertheless) and as she is only 1 of 5 chosen from whole year group, feel that it has probably had a lot of thought put into who might enjoy/benefit get lots from it. My problem is that my husband thinks it's too much to miss and that my DD will feel pressured to catch up on a lot of work (I'm pretty sure they just expect them to check h/w for Maths and English, though)
, whereas I am more for her doing it for other things she might gain! Talk about a rock and a hard place! We have told DD that whatever she wants to do is fine with us, we will obviously support her either way. Bearing in mind this is year 9, would you be happy for your DC to miss so much? Thanks - need some other mums' views!! Thanks.
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christine34 · 30/03/2011 19:05
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