School started and quite a few classmates are out of the country/on vacations still

[Anonymous]

I know we see these posts often especially in the younger years but at DD local high school, she knows a good number of kids who are still on vacation thru Labor Day - Russia, Belize, England, Bahamas, were just a few of the locations.

So if you ever wonder how much class your kid can miss for vacation, go on and book it, you won’t be alone.

[Anonymous]

If you’re in public school sure. That doesn’t fly in most private schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know we see these posts often especially in the younger years but at DD local high school, she knows a good number of kids who are still on vacation thru Labor Day - Russia, Belize, England, Bahamas, were just a few of the locations.

So if you ever wonder how much class your kid can miss for vacation, go on and book it, you won’t be alone.

What’s your point here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you’re in public school sure. That doesn’t fly in most private schools.

Most private schools haven’t started yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you’re in public school sure. That doesn’t fly in most private schools.

Sure it does. They can’t stop you. The worst the can do is not let kid makeup work, but unless high school, a lot of parents don’t care.

[Anonymous]

We all learned that no one really cares when Covid hit. I’ll never prioritize attendance again like I used to. We will go on family trips when we want because it’s cheaper and family is more important that a mundane assignment a teacher is no doubt recycling from teachers pay teachers. FCPS sucks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We all learned that no one really cares when Covid hit. I’ll never prioritize attendance again like I used to. We will go on family trips when we want because it’s cheaper and family is more important that a mundane assignment a teacher is no doubt recycling from teachers pay teachers. FCPS sucks.

So do you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We all learned that no one really cares when Covid hit. I’ll never prioritize attendance again like I used to. We will go on family trips when we want because it’s cheaper and family is more important that a mundane assignment a teacher is no doubt recycling from teachers pay teachers. FCPS sucks.

“No one cares”? It’s supposed to be the parents who care. I don’t know who think was supposed to care but it’s always been the parents job to do the right thing

[Anonymous]

I have not seen this at all- in high school anyway- but my kids are in public. Was more coming when they were younger.

Our HS doesn’t make it easy to make up missing work, even if they miss for valid reason. My kids hate missing school because it ends up being a total PITA to make up work. That said, not much is going on in the first 1-2 weeks anyway

[Anonymous]

Because it's weird to have school in August!

[Anonymous]

I’m not advocating missing school, but as a HS teacher it is a lot better to miss this week than later on when we are deep into content. They are only missing the overview of the syllabus that they can get online, the introduction activity that many don’t care about and review. It’s much harder to miss class later.

Even with that I had near perfect attendance so far this week. Absences aren’t as common as OP is making them out to be.

[Anonymous]

Last week of school is the time to miss. Laptops are turned in early so no work is done there. The last day of school is like two hours long which I guess is what the need to count for required days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you’re in public school sure. That doesn’t fly in most private schools.

My kids are in fcps public high school and don’t know anyone on vacation this week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you’re in public school sure. That doesn’t fly in most private schools.

Most private schools haven’t started yet.

Sure they have just not in the DC area. We’ve been back for 2 weeks.

[Anonymous]

I don’t blame them at all! It’s too early for schools to start around here- those kids got cheated out of a week or two of summer break