December 28 2019, 18:33

Imagine, in our county (Fairfax), schools have made the decision to OFFICIALLY grant a day off (excused absence) to students if they provide proof of participation in civic engagement activities, such as ‘marches, sit-ins or trips to Richmond to lobby legislators’.

Getting a day off is generally tough – you need to be seriously ill, involved in a court case, among about a dozen other reasons of the same ilk

Attendance Policies – Fayette County Public Schools

https://www.fcps.net/leaders-support/departments-offices/pupil-personnel/attendance-policies

One of the nation’s biggest school systems will let students take time off to protest. The conservative backlash has begun.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/one-of-the-nations-biggest-school-systems-will-let-students-take-time-off-to-protest-the-conservative-backlash-has-begun/2019/12/26/7c2ebaf8-27e3-11ea-9c21-2c2a4d2c2166_story.html