Has anyone had to miss school for an assembly?

by WTWizard 7 Replies latest jw friends

  • WTWizard
    WTWizard

    Usually, the district assemblies start past the middle of June, but I have heard a number of people that have had them start already. Granted, that is in the South where school usually lets out in May and starts in August. On the flip side, some southern assemblies might be running in late August and school already in session.

    I have seen a district assembly that ran June 16-18. And school didn't let out that year until June 23. This is the week when final exams are commonly given in school, and any children that missed them for the a$$embly got a zero on the biggest test of the year and likely flunked or did poorly as a result. No, that wasn't in the south either. It was in the North, where school still had another week. I bet the children who flunked the finals for that a$$embly got high praise in the magazines (and yet, they got prodded to do even more).

    The circuit a$$emblies run the weekends and do not force the attendees to miss school. Special meetings, though, might. They might also have special meetings at the Kingdumb Hells that force children to miss school, and there is always service that cuts the last class short in some districts.

  • Stealth453
    Stealth453

    Too many freaking times.

  • blondie
    blondie

    I had to but I got to go to a southern state and go to Disneyland and other tourist areas. We missed 2 days of an 8 day assembly. No fanatic JWs in my family.

    Blondie

  • brinjen
    brinjen

    Every bloody single year. School holidays never coincided with the DA where I grew up and yes it was always during the more crucial weeks towards the end of the school year. In high school some of my teachers became concerned that I had to miss school around this time, fell on deaf ears of course.

  • free2think
    free2think

    It happened a couple of times, not too often though which was quite fortunate.

  • Bumble Bee
    Bumble Bee

    When I was in school, usually the DA was held the weekend after school was finished. Now though, the DA is held usually towards the middle/end of June, right at exam time, end of school. No wonder they are always harping on the lack of attendance at the Friday assembly!! What do they expect, that students are going to tell their teachers "sorry I can't write this most important, worth 50% of my marks exam because I have a 'Spiritual Banquet" to attend????

    BB

  • NotBlind
    NotBlind

    School in several states now starts in early August, and I mean August 2nd or 3rd. The conventions in this area are sometimes held in in mid-August, so those JW kids have to miss at least a Friday (and usually a Thursday) to go to their district convention.

  • NewYork44M
    NewYork44M

    Our assembly was always in july or August. Thus, never did have to miss school. I once went with my father to an international convention on one of the society's tours to austrailia and missed three weeks of school. That may have been worth the time missed.

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