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#The other day I took attendance, and asked why a girl was absent, the answer was it’s her birthday…
I also gave my class a test and one girl asked for a plus 2 because it’s her birthday…
Seriously?! what did you do to deserve being born?
Stop expecting the world to stop drop and roll because you entered this world n years ago.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t have a cake, get a card or a present.
But just maybe, Let’s start focusing on who helped us be born, Hashem, give him a gift, become a better Jew.
Your parents, Give them a gift!
So, if you are still a student, dontcha ever be absent on your birthday and use it as an excuse, because in my book, it’s an unexcused.
Happy Birthday!
If you can make an argument like that, you shouldn’t be a teacher.
Maybe she decided to say the whole tehillim on her birthday and that’s why she took off from school
Yo teach take a chill pill its one day a year.
The girl who was absent made a bad decision. You see, had she come to school, she could have asked for a plus 2 on the test. But now that she missed school, she’s going to have to make up the test a different day, and she won’t be able to request the plus two anymore because it won’t be her birthday. But then again, perhaps on her day off she did some additional studying and increased her grade by more than two points, in which case she made a good decision. Or maybe she would just rather have a day off than do well on the test. But she’ll probably ask for the plus 2 anyway and say that before it was her Hebrew birthday and now it’s her English birthday.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t have a cake, get a card or a present.
Why a cake, a card or a present, but not plus 2?
It’s one day chill out
It starts off as once a year, and then it goes to twice, thrice… Before you know it they’ll have twenty birthdays a year. OP is right. We have to put our foot down as soon as a breach, no matter how small, is found. Unexcused absents are unexcusable. It’s our job to put our collective foot down and set reasonable rules.
Is a birthday then also an excuse to take off a day from work? Would you still say to chill out if you were the person’s boss?
If they want to y not and by a child
It’s different
So don’t pay them for the days they take off school.
Kids are not adults and vice versa, kids especially ones from large families should feel that they have one day a year where they are treated especially special and feel like YAY ME IM x YEARS OLD WOO HOOO!!!, does that mean that they can be disrespectful or condescending of course not but some latitude should be given to them that day.
Kj chassid- it gives the child the message that it’s ok to simply miss school for something trivial. In England, such an absence would be considered truancy by the local authority.
Depneds what grade this is. We are in high school and any excuse we have, we miss school. Like:
“The shuk is only open on monday morning!”
“I had a doctors appointment at nine…and well, after I came home at 10, why would I go to school?”
“I was’n t in the mood”
“There wasn’t a test today though!”
No one should take off from school simply because it is that student’s birthday. BUT – having said that – if the teacher is aware of the brithday, ti would be nice to take five minutes to mark the day for that child and give the child some special thing to do (age appropriately, of course), i.e., be the monitor, or chazzan/chazzanit for davening, get to erase and wash the blackboard (always was my favorite thing), and so forth. The class can sing happy birthday. What’s the big deal. if it is a teen, you wish them a happy birthday and gamarnu.
Reb Moshe Meir Weiss in his Parshas Vayeshev shiur mentioned several Gedolim that made sure to do something special on their birthday. There isn’t anything wrong with wanting to make the day special.
“Its not the years in ones life that count, rather the life in ones years”. – AL
AL = Abraham Lincoln (Googled. Do you really think he’s like MLK?)
The day you were born is the day Hashem decided that the world could not exist without you.~Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
The original post seems kind of harsh, though I wouldn’t consider
a birthday a valid reason to be absent from school.
(I would consider the first response a little
more well-adjusted than the opening post. 🙂 )
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