I don't see why you need to be in class all the time. If someone can miss 20% of classes and still get an A/learn all the material, why not let them? At that point it should be affecting your grade anyways, there's no need to give someone an automatic F for missing class.
"Religious reasons" for missing school?
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MagisterCultuum
Great Sage
Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement, not a new years day.
It is Rosh Hashanah is the "Jewish New Year." That term means "head of the year," but the view of it as a new year is of Babylonian origin (their similar calender had 2 "new years days" half a year apart). As described in the Torah the year begins in the spring (determined by when barley in the holy land reaches a certain state of ripeness), about 7 months earlier. The holiday now called Rosh Hashanah was in the bible called Yom Teruah, meaning The Day of Blowing [shofars]. It is the one holiday that the Law of Moses mandates celebrating without giving any reason why.
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here the rule is:
Miss eight days total in a semester and you don't get the credit. Funeral? Too bad, that counts. Oh, you were sick? Sorry. F (for) you (unless it lasts 4+ days)
You can appeal it though
here the rule is:
Miss eight days total in a semester and you don't get the credit. Funeral? Too bad, that counts. Oh, you were sick? Sorry. F (for) you (unless it lasts 4+ days)
You can appeal it though
aimeeandbeatles
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If I was living where you are, I'd still be in primary or grade one.
Also, today I had to come home early from school because I was vomiting (again). Maybe the doctors should do a bunch of tests on me to see if they find out anything for medical research. Maybe they'll name a disease after me.
aimeeandbeatlesitis?Maybe the doctors should do a bunch of tests on me to see if they find out anything for medical research. Maybe they'll name a disease after me.
aimeeandbeatles syndrome?
aimeeandbeatles disease?
Which of those rolls trippingly off the tongue?
This happened to one of my 4th grade students this year.
There are classroom hour requirements for diploma standardization. Grades can be pretty subjective, but requirements like hours are used as a safeguard to make sure that the rigor of a class is high enough to count for a diploma.
If missing more than the 10/20 (ten a semester, 20 a year) allotment would be a hardship, there is always online school or homeschooling.
Cheetah
Deity
In Norway we get those as well as Maundy Thursday off.
On-topic: Is this a big deal anyway? Just have a limit of say, 20 days, and let the parents take their kids out of school when needed. Be it for a religious celebration. holiday, sickness, fishing trips, vacation to Spain, whatever.
Back in my days, we had a system where everyone could miss up to 15% of lessons per year on every given course, for whatever reason (including no reason ). If one missed more, one had to take an extra test at the end of the course to pass.
I quite liked the system.
). If one missed more, one had to take an extra test at the end of the course to pass. I quite liked the system.
aimeeandbeatles
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I remember one semester I missed 30 days due to illness. For me, homeschool really isn't an option since my mom never graduated high school until she was 35 or something and she refuses.
azzaman333
meh
Skipping school is a good idea, it gives you a lot more time to sleep.
You can do this in college.
moscaverde
Prince
IIRC Jeovah's witnesses can't go to school on saturdays.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
In a whole bunch of courses *I* took, you got marks for attendance.
[My hardcore Catholic real life self]I
Poland just for that[/My hardcore Catholic real life self]
azzaman333
meh
Only boring courses force you to attend for marks.
Cheetah
Deity
Marks for attendance in university is something I've only experienced in the US (and a little bit in Japan).
In university, as long as you actually learn what you need to and complete your exams and assignments, everything goes.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
@azzaman333/Cheetah
They were always smaller classes, with 10-20 people, where class discussion was an integral part of the learnin. If you showed up and did not participate, you lost marks too.
They were always smaller classes, with 10-20 people, where class discussion was an integral part of the learnin. If you showed up and did not participate, you lost marks too.
azzaman333
meh
If you have to be forced to participate in class discussion, it's a boring class anyway.
onedreamer
Dragon
A religious reason is as good as any other reason to miss school. I don't know of any religion that says that children should miss school because of religion.
there is no such thing as weak atheism or strong atheism. You can only have three attitudes towards the open debate on the existance or inexistance of God:
- you agree with one side
- you agree with the other side
- you don't know
It's like the most classical three choices poll:
1 Yes
2 No
3 don't know / can't say.
Have you ever seen polls with choices such as
1 Yes
2 Yes, you bet !!! (stronger than 1)
3 No !
4 Naye (nay and aye at the same time, or weak no)
5 don't know, but at the same time "naye"
this ridiculous rumor of OT about such things as weak atheism or strong atheism (which don't exist) being the same as agnosticism has to stop. STOP reading the english wikipedia on this matter, it is WRONG. Read it in other languages. Learn greek. These words are greek.
there is no such thing as weak atheism or strong atheism. You can only have three attitudes towards the open debate on the existance or inexistance of God:
- you agree with one side
- you agree with the other side
- you don't know
It's like the most classical three choices poll:
1 Yes
2 No
3 don't know / can't say.
Have you ever seen polls with choices such as
1 Yes
2 Yes, you bet !!! (stronger than 1)
3 No !
4 Naye (nay and aye at the same time, or weak no)
5 don't know, but at the same time "naye"
this ridiculous rumor of OT about such things as weak atheism or strong atheism (which don't exist) being the same as agnosticism has to stop. STOP reading the english wikipedia on this matter, it is WRONG. Read it in other languages. Learn greek. These words are greek.
