Missing a day of school won’t make your child homeless.

Cody Caillet
Nov 8 · 5 min read
Father giving son advice

Recently my teenage son asked to miss a day of school. He wasn’t sick and nothing bad had happened at school. He wasn’t trying to avoid a test (we checked) or some project he had failed to deliver. He simply wanted a full day of practicing for an upcoming gig on his guitar. In my day (or maybe more accurately in my parents' day) this would have been a crime against humanity, surely to put the…

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Cody Caillet

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