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Re: How would you define truanting?
The coursework had actually been done Neil. She'd even been graded on it!
However, the teacher had said that if she did some extra work before the deadline of last Friday then she could get a higher grade. I have already tried to explain this.
She could have just shrugged it off said she couldn't be bothered and she would go with the grade she had already achieved. Plenty of kids would have done that and rested on their already acheived laurels but she was willing to give it an extra shot and aim higher.
This was within a short period of time and involved working during her own spare time (lunchtime, break time etc) as well as the lesson periods. She would have completed the work during any spare time on that day but it was suggested that as she wasn't doing PE for GCSE that she could do the work during that period.
She would have gone herself and asked her PE teacher's permission to do this but the other teacher told her that she would OK it with the PE teacher. The mistake my daughter made here was in trusting that the teacher would actually follow through and do so - but she didn't. My daughter was not aware that she hadn't done so until she received the detention for truanting from her PE teacher.
The PE teacher herself now fully understands the situation and since doing so does not blame my daughter and cancelled the detention so I am totally baffled here as to why several AccyWebbers feel they have more right to hold my daughter to blame than the PE teacher herself. My daughter was doing what a teacher had told her to do. She was doing it at a time when she was told to do it. If I can't explain it any better than that then I'm sorry.I really don't know how to make it any plainer.
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