<p>Thanks again everyone. After getting a bit of the run around (and eventually calling the administrative offices of the school district), I was finally able to have someone agree to allow my daughter (and I) to come into the public school for a visit while classes are in session. Not an official shadow day, like the Catholic school, but I’ll take it. They kept talking about the liability involved with having a student shadow, but I kept going up the chain of command. It’s unfortunate that private schools around here have a lot more freedom in the ways that they run their schools 
I don’t necessarily hold it against the public school for this bureaucratic stuff, just wish it was different.</p>