Was this a snow makeup day? Why so many absences?

My daughter's K class had 16 kids present out of 25; my son's had 18 out of 23 (as reported by my kids).

ES Kid #1 had 1 student absent. ES Kid #2 had 4 students absent. Both teachers were there.

I drove by Wootton and Quince Orchard and the student lots were about half full. Northwest looked nearly full.

My kids' ES classroom only had one kid absent. His teacher was there.

My kids had the day off today. PG county.

I work in a school and about 18% of students were absent (a typical day is less than 5%). Only 2 teachers were absent and one was last minute due to an injury.

I'm a teacher. We had 8 staff out of 60 absent but it was a religious holiday for two of them (observant Jews). I believe out count of absent kids was under 200. Some students were with us only part of the day because they had doctors' appointments.

We did service-oriented projects in every class. Awesome day!

Both my kids teachers were absent. They reported some but not tons of kids absent.

Anonymous wrote:My high school kid said that there were not a noticeable number of absences in his classes.

Mine said his largest class was 10 kids (normally would be 30-34). And 1/2 the teachers were subs.

My MCPS high-schooler said a lot were absent. One class only had 4 kids.

No idea, and don't care.

DS's after-school activity was cancelled, however. The director didn't want to come back one day early.

I was at a playground with my toddler and was surprised by the number of big kids there.

My high school kid said that there were not a noticeable number of absences in his classes.

Just curious. My kids said that tons of kids were absent, but I think they are exaggerating.