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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The list of what you "can" do makes it sound like those "catch up days" from last year.  How long until the kids realize those are stupid days and just don't come to school?[/quote]

I have a high school kid. They already know. Mine is scheduling college visits on O Days. I’ll let her miss in the fall to do visits and finish apps. If she wants to senior skip day in the spring she can.  [/quote]

That's what FCPS wants basically. They want to make the days useless to generate high absence rates this year so that next year they have a secular justification for giving off whatever days they want to. [/quote]

Yup. As a teacher, I 100% understand what they were trying to do in creating the rules, and I think that we should get the Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur/Ramadan/Eid off, but some of the holidays that are O days affect very few of the 180,000 students and really hamper teachers ability to get through the curriculum.  Dia de Los Muertos? Bodhi Day? Lunar New Year?  Maybe I'm super misinformed, but I've literally never had a student take off for those. [/quote]

At least half of the East Asian students around here celebrate Lunar New Year.  I bet you we have more students who celebrate Lunar New Year than Yom Kippur in the school system.[/quote]

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