[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: beaumont NOT easy!
- From: InquestGSD@xxxxxxx
- To: SCHARO1@xxxxxxx, PAGAIRS@xxxxxxx, showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:42:10 EST
In a message dated 2/9/2005 9:35:55 PM Central Standard Time, SCHARO1@xxxxxxx
writes:
Let's go one step beyond that, and what will the
new people do especially those with school age children?
Sorry Gary, but times have already changed on that. Basically, school age
children cannot attend the National anymore unless they come in Friday
night.
Schools now demand that children be in attendance for X number of days.
Miss
more and you lose all credit for the semester. You can no longer go in and
get your kids work for a week and take them out of school. Only certain
things constitute an excused absence and a dog show is not one of them.
This
started in Texas back in 1984 If we really cared about your people coming
to the
National it would have to be scheduled during the summer, and no one would
agree to that.I see several families with children at specialty shows. I did
not see them at the National.
Carol
You know, Carol is right about this. For the longest time, National week was
a family vacation for us. I would go to school, express we were having a
family vacation, pick up the kids work for the week, and off we were. Evenings
after showing were spent in the room, doing homework, and many exhibitors that
are/were teachers were aware of this and often stopped by to offer help to the
kids with their homework. My children and I made many wonderful friends this
way, friendships that go way beyond dogs.
Now, it is not quite that easy. And luckily for me my kids are in college.
They still missed our outings. I have friends with kids in school who shared
they couldn't do this now if they tried.
Ileana
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