The bolded is the key. I personally don't like taking kids out of school for vacation. If someone wants to, go ahead, but simply accept whatever consequences there are. Don't make the argument that going on vacation is "educational" and should be allowed. LIFE is "educational".
My son's school had a very strict absence policy. And it worked fairly simply.
In this instance I was advocating for breaking the rules. I would always expect consequences in that case.
It depends on what the state, school district, school, or teacher policies are. If they say "take all the time you want, no consequences", then there are none. If they have a policy regarding ANY unexcused absences, then you follow that. If they have a policy after 'x' days of unexcused absences, then you follow that.
Aren‘t most lesson plans at this point “canned” online. I know my son graduated two years ago, but most if not all of his classes were available digitally in one form or another.
Interesting thoughts. Here Covid is kind of the reason schools and employers have tightened up on attendance because it seemed to the powers to be that soooo much was lost because employees and students were not present.
Here depending on the school (meaning elementary, middle, high) and the district that has a limit where a doctor's note is needed.
Not here.
On the school level my state did put a limit on how many remote days a student can have but not really tightened up attendance policies. However as a consequence to that limit of remote days it restricts the amount of times a school may have used that in lieu of a snow day as in they weigh that decision to go remote vs cancel class with the law in place.
It seems here, the school districts in the Foothills have almost eliminated snow days (which usually are really icy road days, not snow days) because they just switch to remote instruction days since almost every school district here gives students laptops to take home. Not aware of any limits on how many remote days they can have.
Businesses need to stop treating their employees like impetuous children and instead treat them with respect and as adults.
Yeah that was why they put the law in place to curb over reliance on it, chief point being the gold standard is in person instruction as opposed to the yoyo that necessity drove early on in the pandemic. The school district my house is in partnered up with a virtual school for fall 2021 so parents could still be connected to the district but have their kids 100% remote. It lasted only until the end of 2021-2022 school year before costs and low enrollment made it just not feasible so it was shuttered. Costs were appearantly $2.7million to run with about 1% enrollment.
You would think so. From these boards, however, I have learned, a lot of lesson planning is far less structured that I would assume it is, and to be honest, shocked it isn't. I mean, I remember in public school, if a teacher was out sick, the substitute just taught from the lesson plan book. Of course, I never knew how far in advance those lesson plan books were assembled for.
Yeah, Sacramento City Unified School District still offers parents the option of remote learning but far more parents are taking that option than they expected, so they don't have enough teachers to run the remote learning.
Really, 30 years ago I would go to the mimeograph machine and print copies of the next weeks work….. I would get the masters from a big three ring binders for each class…..
