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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FCPS less time off at Christmas in the 1980s and we did not have a problem like this with attendance. People now feel entitled to their vacations even at the expense of school. But that is where we are now.[/quote]

School felt entitled to their schedule of choice at the expense of parents. Why are parents supposed to treat schools with more respect than they recieve?[/quote]

But the school schedule provides more breaks. Why would parents need more?[/quote]

Families with international jobs, families of immigrants, families of military/transient DC residence— all very well represented in the area— can’t fly to visit relatives in the 1 and 2 and .5 day breaks that are all over the calendar. Summer, spring, and winter breaks are expensive (which is why the teachers aren’t sticking around) and the principal correctly noticed a lot of people don’t want to spend thousands of extra dollars to have their kids watch a movie on Friday afternoon. FCPS should make it a planning day.[/quote]

Not the school system's problem. You could argue there are way too many small breaks, but building a schedule to allow extended school year vacations is a recent and stupid entitlement.[/quote]

If they are whining about attendance, apparently THEY think it's their problem. [b]Maybe fewer 1 day breaks throughout the year will decrease student absences.  They ought to consider it.[/quote][/b]

Best comment  yet![/quote]

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