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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Neither of my kids are going tomorrow now. One had already announced it because she has no more assignments and she would rather sleep in and then read her book in a more comfortable chair than in the classroom. The younger one caught wind of this and decided she’s out, too, now, because she is routinely taking the bus in before 7 am only to have her first teacher say it’s “another free day”. This is torture on parents and kids. My kids are lucky I’m home during the day and would rather they sleep, read, or help out at home. It’s never been this bad! Teachers, can’t you do a Kahoot? Play I-spy or 20 Questions? Talk about current events in the news? I refuse to believe not a single activity of value can be done with these days. Shame on FCPS for scheduling our kids’ lives around zero instruction days. MANY more families will be headed on vacation next June![/quote]

My kid is going and is well aware that he doesn’t get to announce that he is not going to school. School is where he goes when it is in session, just like I go to work. Even on the days when most of my colleagues have it off, I go to work. I do what little I have to do on those days and read at work because that is my job for the day.

It isn’t torture. It is a part of life. Sometimes you go to work/school when nothing is happening and you make the best of it. That is life. Deal with it. This attitude is why you see people complaining about your kids and their work ethic when they graduate from college. They can’t figure out how to enjoy days at school with nothing to do? They think that they can just not go? They are going to use all of their PTO fast in a bunch of years. 
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No one is complaining about my kids’ work ethic. They are A students who work hard!

Did you forget that we are the customer here and our students’ education the product? Our kids aren’t being paid to attend school. They can be more productive with their time at home. One is doing research on colleges and working toward a fitness goal. The other is getting much more sleep and helping around the house.

At the end of May they were just frustrated and complaining. Then they asked if they could skip certain things here and there because academics are over and they are tired of Disney movies. WEEKS later they are announcing they aren’t going and I’m out of arguments against it on the days where the teachers have given up.

If you have younger children and work outside the home, then school becomes daycare. I get it. But at this point it’s a terribly poor quality one at great taxpayer expense.[/quote]

This sends the message that your children call the shots. That’s not going to be the case in college or in their future careers.

Go to school. Find value, even if it’s simply doing what is expected of you. That in itself is an important lesson and sets you apart from the people who cut corners/make their own rules/choose laziness.

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