“...his reason for missing lab that day, as least to me, was not very important...”
Rawhide, take it somewhere else...you have no knowledge that his reason for missing was ‘not very important’.
Okay, okay, on second thought, you guys may be right, maybe he was required to be there, or since it was an important event in the family. (red-face)
At first glance it seemed to me to be a lousy excuse, since the lousy teacher gave it such importance, as far as his grade was concerned. And the kid did approval before hand.
I was not thinking clearly this AM.
Sorry.