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We've only had schedule clashes around SSAs. When a kid is missing instruction for a SSA, then there's also time when he'll be sitting through instruction that doesn't apply to him.

DS wears a watch with multiple alarms set for each time he's supposed to leave in the middle of class to go elsewhere.

For a couple of years, he would have a folder that he'd put on his desk when he was out of the room with missed work. The teacher or kid sitting next to him would put anything that was handed out when he was gone in the folder. When he's sitting through a repeat of instruction or grade level instruction in the accelerated subject, he'd pull the folder out and do what was in there.

We set priorities for the school on what we'd like to see happen when a one-off event means that schedules will change for a day. For instance, we established the approach that "DD is a 6th grader first, an accelerated student second, and DD has the right to make a decision as to where she goes without discussion with us." That means she'd attend all 6th grade functions like field trips and assemblies, and we'd expect the teachers to give her any missed assignments and time to make them up. She may also choose to skip an assembly in favor of going to her accelerated classes, and I'd be ok with that.