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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a combination of parents remembering how schools handled covid-it was hey kids teach yourself, you don't need to be in person, and the calendar. For years the schools have sent the message that regular attendance doesn't matter. [/quote]

Omg covid was ONE year of school. One. Many of the kids in school now weren’t even in school when covid happened! [/quote]

It clearly sent a message that in person education was not a priority and parents and students remember that. Kids who were in kindergarten when it started as still in elementary school so most kids in the school system remember the experience of a short google meet and then "go ask your parents what to do now".[/quote]

My youngest kid was was in K when it started. Did half of first grade online before hybrid began. Is now a 6th grader on the all A honor roll because she isn’t a moron who somehow thinks school will never matter in her life because she had to do Google meets for a total of 6 months ever. Get it together! [/quote]

Why you are choosing to spend your Sunday morning name-calling on the Internet is an interesting question.

You missed the point. Kids are missing school and still doing fine. They get good grades, go to good colleges l, and get good jobs. They don't need too be in school because instruction is so dumbed down for the least capable.[/quote]

Some kids are fine missing school, many kids are not. Just because yours seems to be doing fine doesn’t mean that others are. But the parents of the kids missing a ton of days at lower SES schools are not posting on this board. Those schools with low test scores? I would guess that they have a higher percentage of kids missing more school. The kids don’t have the parental support at home to catch up and their missed days are not mental health days, they are plain skipping school because their parents are not paying attention and don’t value school.

The MC/UMC families who let kids miss school or are taking off for their kid to go on a cheaper cruise are more likely to support their kids recovering material that they miss. The burden is less on the kids and more on the teachers because parents expect that the teachers will catch the kids up. Parents call in that their kid is out with the flu so they can cruise and still require the teachers to make up material because it was an excused.

Take your vacation, I think it is a poor choice but you do you. Accept the unexcused absence on the record and [list]stop burdening the teachers with make up work so you can visit Disney at a better time of year[/list]. That is all that I ask for. The vacation plus demanding the teachers work to catch your kid up is the entitlement that I find galling.

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Sure, as long as there is a matching policy that teachers may not take vacations during the school year, contracts of violators immediately terminated. As long as my kid has a sub so a teacher can go to Disney in October, I won’t feel remotely bad for “all” the work a teacher has to do to catch my kid up from vacation in March. [/quote]

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