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[quote=Anonymous]I've got kids in elementary, middle, and high school at FCPS. (FWIW, they are all doing fine academically.) We pulled them out of school last month for five days for a trip. I left an honest message on each of the attendance lines. For two of the kids, they had not previously missed a day of school (for illness or otherwise) this year. I didn't hear from the high school or middle school but the elementary school sent me a fairly personal (clearly not automated) admonishing email directing me to fill out a form, and explaining that I will be assigned a counselor if the number of unexcused absences gets to five. l was annoyed but ignored the email, and didn't complete the form. Yesterday, the office again sent me a personal three-paragraph email from a "member of the XX ES attendance committee" again giving us an attendance lecture, explaining that the school is "being tasked this year by the Virginia Department of Education to make an attendance plan for any student who has 5 or more unexcused absences" but that they've decided to let me go with a warning this time, but I am on notice that my double secret probation will be elevated to a meeting to discuss attendance if there are further infractions.

Is this something that VA DOE is telling schools to do, or is my ES just over-achieving in pointless ways?[/quote]

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