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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting.  I don't think I would but I seem to be in the minority.[/quote]

Parents in the DMV went nuts during the pandemic and haven't recovered.  I don't think this question would have received the same responses in 2019. [/quote]

+1, I learned two things during the pandemic that makes me shrug at this:

1) A huge majority of the school day is filler or social time. 
2) The school’s investment in attendance is largely administrative. If my kid can be marked present because we logged into a website without interacting with the teacher, then the issue with I excused absences is not “kids aren’t learning”, it’s “we can’t account for them.” Well that’s a different proposition.

Why not take a vacation during the school year when the negative consequences are missing MAYBE two hours a day of instruction, so time with friends, and forcing the school to report that one child had an unexcused absence? None of that seems like a big deal to me.[/quote]

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