My Pre-K 3 student will be missing 2 weeks in June for family weddings. Will we get in trouble?

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Anonymous wrote:So many of the replies on this thread are ridiculous. C'mon guys, it's not like convincing the school to kick out this one kid is going to magically open up a spot for your precious son or daughter.

In three pages of comments, how many were actual attempts to answer the question, rather than just "you should go to private school because your stupid family members have the audacity to get married in June"?

I've posted a couple times on this thread. My child is in first grade, so I don't really care about the PK3 seat. I do care about the attendance policy in general, though, because it IS disruptive to have kids gone a lot and gone for extended periods of time, because at that age, it does take time to readjust to being in school. I also really don't appreciate people who are happy to take advantage of what public school has to offer and then treat it as daycare, or as optional.

School is not compulsory until kindergarten, which is why the attendance policies describe hard and fast rules for K+ students. But every handbook I've seen also says that even though school is not compulsory for PK3 and PK4, those students should also adhere to the attendance policies. Many DCPS (even many that are not very highly regarded) have wait lists of families who will happily send their kids to school unless the kid is sick. For someone to say, "Oh, but it's for A FAMILY WEDDING so that means that the policies don't apply to us" is arrogant.

Chill. It really doesn't hurt your child, and many kids take no time to readjust (and, again, we're talking June, not mid-year).

It's the principle of the thing. The OP's question was "will we get in trouble" and the answer is "you might or you might not, but you should respect the attendance policies on general principle."

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We will also leave the country 2 weeks before the end of school year. My daughter is not happy at her currently Pk3 DCPS. She will go to private for pk4. We don't care if she misses 2 weeks of school before she even turns 4.

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Anonymous wrote:It's Pre-K. Your kid is 3. How much "trouble" can you possibly be in?

None, your child cannot be mandated to go to school even if you register them in a dcps or dcpcs.

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Anonymous wrote:It's Pre-K. Your kid is 3. How much "trouble" can you possibly be in?

None, your child cannot be mandated to go to school even if you register them in a dcps or dcpcs.

Your child cannot be mandated to go to school. They can, however, not be permitted to re-enroll if they are an out of bounds student or a student in a charter school. It's pretty much up to the schools whether they want to enforce that or not. If you are not allowed to re-enroll, you will have to re-apply to PK4 through the lottery, which is closed, and then next year, maybe your child doesn't have a seat anywhere.

Realistically, most schools will not enforce that, but they could, if they wanted to.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of these comments are surprising to me. I work at a DCPS in Ward 8 and close to 15% of our kids have 30+ absences. It's up to the school to decide what they consider excused or not. Can someone who said unexcused absences get you kicked out of a school post a link to where that's a law? In my experience, you'll get the CFSA call, attendance conference and maybe court referral but I don't think there is legal ground to loose your seat.

Exactly, after 10 unexcused absences, the school is mandated to call CFSA. That is all.