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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is in third grade and has good grades. Just got a message she had 5 unexcused absences. She has 2 sick days too.

[b]I was going to miss 2-3 days for Memorial Day[/b]. Will something happen if she misses more school?[/quote]

FCPS has already made Memorial Day a 5 day weekend, are you just taking off the entire week?[/quote]

If FCPS hadn't given off for:

Lunar New Year (not a US holiday)

Day of the Dead/All Saints Day (not a US holiday and the Catholics have 10 Mass times in a 15 minute radius everywhere, at least half of which are before/after school)

Orthodox Epiphany & Orthodox Easter (&gt;2% of FCPS)

Easter Monday (unnecessary, not a celebration day in NoVa)

Nowruz (&gt;1% of FCPS)

and the random teacher workday the Tuesday after Memorial Day (wtf fcps)

then we would have gotten out 2 full weeks earlier on June 5th, and still had a TON of days off during the year, including off for all the major religious holidays of the 4 faiths representing more than 5% of FCPS population.[/quote]

The teacher work days/school plan days do not count against the 180 for students but are required. Some of the holidays you mentioned were those contract days. [b]School would not get out June 5.[/b] They used to just fall in between quarters and semesters but were moved to those dates since they were high sub/student absence days.

[/quote] FCCPS started the same day (August 18) and ends June 5 so it is possible. June 5 is 1.6 weeks earlier not 2 full weeks but still ends in timely fashion for an approximate mid-August start.[/quote]

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