Outside the school holidays, here are all the dates to which children are allowed to dry the courses.
A day in the week without going to school: more than one student in a dream, whether to blow a little or to enjoy a special event. However, missing a school day is not authorized without a valid reason provided by the parents. Indeed, any absence outside of the school holidays must systematically be justified with the establishment. Among the reasons accepted, we find the disease, a death in the family, an important medical or administrative meeting. But there is also another reason that we do not always think of and which is admissible, that of religious festivals.
French law is formal on the subject. Since the circular of May 18, 2004, relating to the law of March 15, 2024 which frames the principle of secularism at school, students of all confessions can obtain absence authorizations for certain religious festivals. This right applies in all public schools, colleges and high schools in France. For this, the student must make it a request well upstream by addressing his main teacher or the school life of his establishment.
“Absence authorizations must be able to be granted to students for major religious festivals who do not coincide with a day off and whose dates are recalled each year by an instruction published in the Official Bulletin of National Education”indicates the law. Moreover, “The educational and university institution, for its part, must make the necessary arrangements so that no important examination or an important test is organized on the day of these major religious festivals.”
According to the calendar of major religious or commemorative festivals of the 2024-2025 school year, the next dates, for which absence authorizations can be granted to a student, are as follows: Thursday, February 27, 2025 (Armenian feast Holy Vartanants), Friday April 18, 2025 (Orthodox Festival of the Grand Friday Good Friday), Monday March 31, 2025 (Muslim festival Aïd El Fitr), Thursday April 24, 2025 (Armenian festival commemoration of April 24), Monday, May 12 2025 (Buddhist celebration of the Vesak), Thursday May 29, 2025 (Orthodox Festival Ascension), Monday June 2 and Tuesday June 3, 2025 (Jewish party Chavouot), and finally Friday, June 6, 2025 (Muslim festival Aïd El Kebir).
Before these dates, there is also the Muslim festival Al Mawlid Ennabi, the Jewish festivals of Roch Hachana and Yom Kippour, the Armenian party of the Nativity and the Orthodox Festival of Theophany, which occur before mid-January. As for Catholic and Protestant festivals, they do not appear in this calendar because they are generally already legal holidays.