<p>To me, not a huge deal. I think my mom places an excessive amount of importance on not being absent even one day for CNY (& I am 100% Chinese). I honestly unintentionally overslept an hour anyway and decided to stay home since being absent would be better than being late. My school has a full, regular day today but I’m not the only Chinese person taking off, and I believe my school gives excused absences for this. In addition, nothing new will be taught today since it’s the end of the term and the rest of the week is uniform midterm testing. (Possible that they purposely made today a non-testing day for those who are celebrating CNY?) and this time off would be really valuable for studying. I have been late to school a couple times this year and I know this absence doesn’t really help my attendance record, but tell me - is it a big deal to take the day off for a cultural holiday or should I have gone?</p>
<p>Parents really **** me off when they don’t accept that attendance isn’t very important. Thankfully, my parents weren’t so unnecessarily strict. If I felt sick, or stressed, or tired, I could ask for an absence note and get one. </p>
<p>Attendance is only meaningful if it directly enters into a grading equation, or if you don’t want to miss an important in-class event. I seriously do not understand parents who treat attendance as though it were sacrosanct.</p>
<p>It’s really no big deal. I remember my school district (LAUSD) used to give us a “non-school day” for the Jewish new year – Rosh Hashanah – and my expressing my discontent to my parents that other cultural holidays are not recognized. If your district gives you off-days for other culture-specific celebrations, I don’t see why wouldn’t be alright.</p>
<p>My school treats this day as a holiday so there was no school. Also it was a teacher work day.</p>
<p>Not a big deal at all unless you had a final or some other big project, which I’m assuming you didn’t.</p>