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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 [b]but are required.[/b] Some of the holidays you mentioned were those contract days. School would not get out June 5. They used to just fall in between quarters and semesters but were moved to those dates since they were high sub/student absence days.

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Required by whom?[/quote]

The teacher contract which is around 190 days.[/quote]

It is not required that those days take place inside the school year, those 10 days can be accomplished in August and June and be just as compliant with the contract. So no, it is not “required”.[/quote]

I’m a DP and a teacher. I absolutely hate how teacher workdays have been treated with such disdain on this thread. Its sickening.

I give up ALL of my evenings and MOST of my weekends to this job. The fact the poster above thinks I deserve no paid hours between August and June to get my work done is deeply insulting.

If compliance to the contract is all that matters, then should I also be compliant? Should I work just my contract hours? [b]No grading will get done and my plans will be minimalistic. I’ll write no letters of recommendation. [/b]See the problem? You seem to expect me to give all for you, PP, with no allowance for what this job actually entails. [/quote]

No, I don’t see the problem. If you will somehow be allowed to remain employed while not doing basics of your job that’s between you and your employer. Expect complaints and the slow, slow disciplinary process but don’t try to keep kids from spending time with their families since you can’t or don’t manage your time well.
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