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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone so quick to blame Karen and Becky.

You do realize that there are some parents who do not earn sick/vacation leave, and if they do not work, they do not get paid.  And not getting paid that day or two might mean the difference in paying the rent or not, in buying medication for a family member or not, or putting meals on the table or not.

According to Mana Food Center (Montgomery County, https://www.mannafood.org/about/), there are 63,000 county residents who experience hunger and food insecurity.  From the link: "Our county is one of the most affluent in the country, yet one in three public school students receives free and discounted school lunches..."

Even the schools with less than 5% FARMS have some students on FARMS.  Not everyone lives the charmed life some of you seem to. [/quote]

There are plenty of families like this at our school in FCPS. There's a reason you have to designate an emergency contact on school forms. Most of the families have no problem finding a family friend or cousin or grandparent pick up their sick kid if the parent(s) are working. I used to work at a private school and those parents were much more of a pain in the ass about it. The school was also too cheap to hire a clinic aide or nurse, but at least the custodial staff was awesome.[/quote]

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