Teaching Kids About PTO v. Sick Days

It’s a very important distinction

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One of my teenage boys was talking about being late to school, and my lecture on the importance of being on time was interrupted with:

“It’s cool. I still have (x) days left before it means summer school.”

Flustered, I tried to explain that those days weren’t for him to choose as days off…