[RussRoberts]

If her choir makes many national and international appearances, you can bet that either she or other students from her school have had absences approved in the past. This will make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for his decision to stand.

If it had been my child, as soon as I was told that the absence was unapproved, I would have sat down with the superintendent, and "politely" demanded a complete list of every absence that had been approved for any student in the previous two years. I further would have made it clear that if any approved absence in the past came close to being political in nature, then I would move mountains to have the idiot reprimanded at the very least.

[ladylib]

This guy could have made an exception. If he did, he'd saved himself a lot of grief. We're talking about the President of the United States.

Of course, their excuse is going to be her parents didn't give 30-days' notice. So what! Make an exception!

This is why people think public school administrators are incapable of exercising good judgment and why parents don't want them having power over their children's lives.