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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not OP here, responding to both:

[quote=Anonymous]Chronic absenteeism is a huge problem post-pandemic.  Including the OP, who thinks it is NBD.... [/quote]

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chronic absenteeism is a huge problem post-pandemic.  Including the OP, who thinks it is NBD.

School districts in Virginia and around the country are trying to deal with it.  This is a good thing.  Even for UMC kids, missing a week of school is hard and can lead to lasting problems.  [/quote]

This is OP, and guilty as charged. The school year is longer than it needs to be, filled with a bunch of busy work, and a last month where they run out the clock. If the school year allowed for reasonable breaks long enough to take trips, we would use those instead of pulling the kids out of school. There is a big difference between a kid skipping a bunch of school enabled by parental ignorance or indifference, and a kid travelling with his family and keeping up on his work while he's out.[/quote]

I used to be cowed by all those lectures about chronic absenteeism. Then I saw exactly what OP saw, as did all the other UMC parents. Plus we saw how the [i]schools[/i] have no problem interrupting student education when it's convenient for them (the lack of 5 day weeks in the calendar), or treating education like it's optional in other ways. It's really annoying to be lectured by people who don't themselves work their hardest to ensure our kids' time is well used when they are in school or that they have a consistent academic schedule.[/quote]

+1 not to mention seeing so many of my kids’ teachers take off a full week mid year and get a sub so they can take a vacation as well. Well why can’t they go during the designated breaks either? People want to travel when it’s cheaper, which doesn’t coincide with school break times. That goes for both families and teachers.[/quote]

So many? Really. I’ve been teaching for over 20 years and I’ve only seen this a couple times.[/quote]

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