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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many Asian families don’t take that email seriously because their students are the ones driving FCPS’s academic performance metrics. These students tend to be highly self-directed and often learn far beyond what is taught in the classroom, largely because they are trained and supported from an early age to do so.[/quote]

+1. FCPS knows there's no moving the attendance needle with families who aren't invested in their children's education. The parents simply don't care and that ship has sailed. They're trying to improve the attendance numbers by going after the families on the other end of the spectrum.[/quote]

Except they are barking up the wrong tree, as the saying goes.  Asking Asian parents to disrupt their winter recess plans and make unwise monetary decisions based on school attendance is more futile than asking parents who don't give a shit about their kids' education to make education-based decisions.  Asian parents know their kids are SO FAR ahead of the academic curve, especially in elementary and middle school, that they couldn't give two shits about keeping their kids in school just because the administration sends them that email.  They read that email and see "blah blah blah" while their kids are doing SAT practice problems starting in 5th grade.  It's kinda laughable that FCPS principals don't know their own kids/families well enough to know there's no needle to move with that crowd.[/quote]

The issue is that VDOE is now using attendance as a measure of school success. The parents taking weeks off in addition to the regular vacation are hurting a statistic that was just introduced to the score. [/quote]

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