Fairfax County Public Schools system is one of the nation’s largest with approximately 188,000 students. With close proximity to Washington, D.C., it doesn’t take much imagination to understand where the students will be protesting. It is being touted as the first school district in the nation to incorporate this policy. The policy allows students in seventh through 12th grades to have one excused absence each school year for “civic engagement activities”.I consider this to be legitimate activity for a student.
Critics will claim that this is about teacher issues and teachers will be dragging their students off to union protests. I think the opposite. When the teachers need the students on the picket line, they will find most of them have already spent their 'one day' of engagement. The teachers do not know this yet, but they will discover it soon as many students report their one day off.
I suspect most of the students will use their day of engagement to argue with the school board for more days of engagement.
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