Take off a week in school year to go to disney

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Anonymous wrote:We want to take kids to go to Disney. Both kids attend same elementary school. The long time lining up at Disney world sounds painful to me, and we are thinking to pull kids out during school year to do so. Will that hurt anything for school report records? And, how bad is it to tell teacher/administration that is due to we are going to disney world?

If you have done it before, which month is the best to go to Disney World for shorter lines, pleasant weather and good deals?

IF you know this now I suggest getting teacher gifts early - back to school Starbucks card, etc. Doesn’t have to be huge but something that makes teacher look kindly on your family.

Do you really think a Starbucks gift card will prevent the teacher from losing respect for this family?

NP. I am a teacher. I promise you, a Disney trip in and of itself will not make me lose respect for a family. Please stop making us look bad (/petty/vindictive/etc.)!!!

Teacher here. I don’t think I’m being petty or vindictive. What I do is very important and yes, the child will miss instruction. I don’t have fluff days, even toward the end of the year. To say “go and have fun” trivializes what we do in the classroom. Perhaps students miss less at the elementary level. Still, you are building habits and setting priorities that will extend to high school.

Last year one student’s vacation cost me about 12 additional hours of work. I first had to prep an individualized unit. When the family returned, I was told they didn’t have any time to do the work on vacation. I then had to meet daily with the student to complete the assignments and catch him up with the rest of the class. That should not have been my responsibility.

It's your fault for taking on additional work for accommodating the student. Don't worry about what I am teaching my kids with regards to priorities / habit setting - you teachers are always telling us to do a better job parenting. Your faux concern is hypocritical. I promise you that my kids are going to be just fine.

See my comment to the post above. The parents’ behavior should not penalize that poor child.

Your children probably will be. Who said otherwise? Why make this an adversarial relationship? Especially when I’m clearly looking out for my students?

It's not your job to police what I do with my kids, and when you shroud your "concern" around "irresponsible parents" it makes you look petty.
To me, this reeks of jealous that you couldn't afford to take your kids on nice trips and/or picked a career where you don't have vacation flexibility.

And with this, you went too far.

I work HARD and I resent it when people carelessly and selfishly make my work harder. I suspect you would feel the same at your place of employment. It’s a reasonable response to being taken advantage of.

Jealousy? No. I vacation plenty, but at the appropriate time.

Good luck to you.

Then bring it up with your administration. Would you feel the same way if you had to do the same level of catch up work if the kid was out sick or for something like bereavement days? No? You just want to bash other parents for making different choices than you and make people feel bad.

Bereavement leave or sickness? I’ll go out of my way to help! Heck, I’ll Zoom entire lessons. But Disney? No. They don’t even compare and you know that.

If you feel bad, that has nothing to do with me.

So you don't *really* care if the kid is missing school, you just care when it's for a reason you deem unacceptable.

Well, the school system actually decides what is an acceptable reason for missing school. Not me. It’s all nicely lined out in the attendance policy. Bereavement leave and sickness are approved absences. Disney is not.

If you take your children out for a vacation, that is against policy. Period. If the school’s admin decides to work with you, realize they are going by out of their way (and having teachers do the same) so you can skirt policy.

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Anonymous wrote:We want to take kids to go to Disney. Both kids attend same elementary school. The long time lining up at Disney world sounds painful to me, and we are thinking to pull kids out during school year to do so. Will that hurt anything for school report records? And, how bad is it to tell teacher/administration that is due to we are going to disney world?

If you have done it before, which month is the best to go to Disney World for shorter lines, pleasant weather and good deals?

IF you know this now I suggest getting teacher gifts early - back to school Starbucks card, etc. Doesn’t have to be huge but something that makes teacher look kindly on your family.

Do you really think a Starbucks gift card will prevent the teacher from losing respect for this family?

NP. I am a teacher. I promise you, a Disney trip in and of itself will not make me lose respect for a family. Please stop making us look bad (/petty/vindictive/etc.)!!!

Teacher here. I don’t think I’m being petty or vindictive. What I do is very important and yes, the child will miss instruction. I don’t have fluff days, even toward the end of the year. To say “go and have fun” trivializes what we do in the classroom. Perhaps students miss less at the elementary level. Still, you are building habits and setting priorities that will extend to high school.

Last year one student’s vacation cost me about 12 additional hours of work. I first had to prep an individualized unit. When the family returned, I was told they didn’t have any time to do the work on vacation. I then had to meet daily with the student to complete the assignments and catch him up with the rest of the class. That should not have been my responsibility.

It's your fault for taking on additional work for accommodating the student. Don't worry about what I am teaching my kids with regards to priorities / habit setting - you teachers are always telling us to do a better job parenting. Your faux concern is hypocritical. I promise you that my kids are going to be just fine.

See my comment to the post above. The parents’ behavior should not penalize that poor child.

Your children probably will be. Who said otherwise? Why make this an adversarial relationship? Especially when I’m clearly looking out for my students?

It's not your job to police what I do with my kids, and when you shroud your "concern" around "irresponsible parents" it makes you look petty.
To me, this reeks of jealous that you couldn't afford to take your kids on nice trips and/or picked a career where you don't have vacation flexibility.

And with this, you went too far.

I work HARD and I resent it when people carelessly and selfishly make my work harder. I suspect you would feel the same at your place of employment. It’s a reasonable response to being taken advantage of.

Jealousy? No. I vacation plenty, but at the appropriate time.

Good luck to you.

Then bring it up with your administration. Would you feel the same way if you had to do the same level of catch up work if the kid was out sick or for something like bereavement days? No? You just want to bash other parents for making different choices than you and make people feel bad.

Bereavement leave or sickness? I’ll go out of my way to help! Heck, I’ll Zoom entire lessons. But Disney? No. They don’t even compare and you know that.

If you feel bad, that has nothing to do with me.

So you don't *really* care if the kid is missing school, you just care when it's for a reason you deem unacceptable.

Well, the school system actually decides what is an acceptable reason for missing school. Not me. It’s all nicely lined out in the attendance policy. Bereavement leave and sickness are approved absences. Disney is not.

If you take your children out for a vacation, that is against policy. Period. If the school’s admin decides to work with you, realize they are going by out of their way (and having teachers do the same) so you can skirt policy.

And that they’re doing it because they don’t want to deal with your complaining, not because they think it’s fine and dandy for you to pull your kid out for a week to go to Disney World.

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Anonymous wrote:We want to take kids to go to Disney. Both kids attend same elementary school. The long time lining up at Disney world sounds painful to me, and we are thinking to pull kids out during school year to do so. Will that hurt anything for school report records? And, how bad is it to tell teacher/administration that is due to we are going to disney world?

If you have done it before, which month is the best to go to Disney World for shorter lines, pleasant weather and good deals?

IF you know this now I suggest getting teacher gifts early - back to school Starbucks card, etc. Doesn’t have to be huge but something that makes teacher look kindly on your family.

Do you really think a Starbucks gift card will prevent the teacher from losing respect for this family?

NP. I am a teacher. I promise you, a Disney trip in and of itself will not make me lose respect for a family. Please stop making us look bad (/petty/vindictive/etc.)!!!

Teacher here. I don’t think I’m being petty or vindictive. What I do is very important and yes, the child will miss instruction. I don’t have fluff days, even toward the end of the year. To say “go and have fun” trivializes what we do in the classroom. Perhaps students miss less at the elementary level. Still, you are building habits and setting priorities that will extend to high school.

Last year one student’s vacation cost me about 12 additional hours of work. I first had to prep an individualized unit. When the family returned, I was told they didn’t have any time to do the work on vacation. I then had to meet daily with the student to complete the assignments and catch him up with the rest of the class. That should not have been my responsibility.

It's your fault for taking on additional work for accommodating the student. Don't worry about what I am teaching my kids with regards to priorities / habit setting - you teachers are always telling us to do a better job parenting. Your faux concern is hypocritical. I promise you that my kids are going to be just fine.

See my comment to the post above. The parents’ behavior should not penalize that poor child.

Your children probably will be. Who said otherwise? Why make this an adversarial relationship? Especially when I’m clearly looking out for my students?

It's not your job to police what I do with my kids, and when you shroud your "concern" around "irresponsible parents" it makes you look petty.
To me, this reeks of jealous that you couldn't afford to take your kids on nice trips and/or picked a career where you don't have vacation flexibility.

And with this, you went too far.

I work HARD and I resent it when people carelessly and selfishly make my work harder. I suspect you would feel the same at your place of employment. It’s a reasonable response to being taken advantage of.

Jealousy? No. I vacation plenty, but at the appropriate time.

Good luck to you.

Then bring it up with your administration. Would you feel the same way if you had to do the same level of catch up work if the kid was out sick or for something like bereavement days? No? You just want to bash other parents for making different choices than you and make people feel bad.

Bereavement leave or sickness? I’ll go out of my way to help! Heck, I’ll Zoom entire lessons. But Disney? No. They don’t even compare and you know that.

If you feel bad, that has nothing to do with me.

So you don't *really* care if the kid is missing school, you just care when it's for a reason you deem unacceptable.

Well, the school system actually decides what is an acceptable reason for missing school. Not me. It’s all nicely lined out in the attendance policy. Bereavement leave and sickness are approved absences. Disney is not.

If you take your children out for a vacation, that is against policy. Period. If the school’s admin decides to work with you, realize they are going by out of their way (and having teachers do the same) so you can skirt policy.

Oh no, against policy! Is that supposed to scare me into not going?

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Anonymous wrote:We took our kids out during the school year to go toDisney y when my oldest was in K, 2, and 5 (the youngest is 3 years behind).

The oldest still got straight As and ended up in the TPMS magnet, then the Blair magnet. The youngest had straight As and qualified for both middle school magnets, but lost it in the lottery. He expects to get into a HS magnet eventually.

Missing a week in elementary school, especially early in the school year, will not make or break your kid.

However, this does not apply if they're in middle or high school.

It’s not about whether they’ll struggle academically. It’s about the message it sends.

We took ours out for Disney in 6th grade. He graduated from high school with honors and a scholarship. He has one year left in his Engineering degree, earning high grades. A few missed days of ES school for a trip to Disney did no harm.

Op, check the crowd calendar and plan around a weekend.

Good for you. Don’t care. Not the type of family I would ever want to be in.

I'll add that my husband is a teacher, and ds's teacher told us to go and not worry about it.

You don't care because your theory about priorities over one trip is a little off.

And you’ve ignored posts from teachers on here, expressing frustration with these trips.

Your kid’s teacher very likely said that because what the heck else is he/she supposed to do? You’re going to go on the trip regardless of what the teacher says.

I see a teacher or two saying don't expect them to do extra work for that student.

I also see a teacher or two say they don't worry about it.

Pp, my kid does well but he's certainly not superior.

It’s just obnoxious.

Kids get plenty of breaks, but rather than using those, you all just take your kids out for a week at a time. Why? Is the message to the kid that, as long as they get good grades, it doesn’t matter?

I think this is a fantastic message, that ultimately it’s the final product that matters. As is learning how to catch up. These are important skills in my profession.

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Anonymous wrote:We want to take kids to go to Disney. Both kids attend same elementary school. The long time lining up at Disney world sounds painful to me, and we are thinking to pull kids out during school year to do so. Will that hurt anything for school report records? And, how bad is it to tell teacher/administration that is due to we are going to disney world?

If you have done it before, which month is the best to go to Disney World for shorter lines, pleasant weather and good deals?

IF you know this now I suggest getting teacher gifts early - back to school Starbucks card, etc. Doesn’t have to be huge but something that makes teacher look kindly on your family.

Do you really think a Starbucks gift card will prevent the teacher from losing respect for this family?

NP. I am a teacher. I promise you, a Disney trip in and of itself will not make me lose respect for a family. Please stop making us look bad (/petty/vindictive/etc.)!!!

Teacher here. I don’t think I’m being petty or vindictive. What I do is very important and yes, the child will miss instruction. I don’t have fluff days, even toward the end of the year. To say “go and have fun” trivializes what we do in the classroom. Perhaps students miss less at the elementary level. Still, you are building habits and setting priorities that will extend to high school.

Last year one student’s vacation cost me about 12 additional hours of work. I first had to prep an individualized unit. When the family returned, I was told they didn’t have any time to do the work on vacation. I then had to meet daily with the student to complete the assignments and catch him up with the rest of the class. That should not have been my responsibility.

It's your fault for taking on additional work for accommodating the student. Don't worry about what I am teaching my kids with regards to priorities / habit setting - you teachers are always telling us to do a better job parenting. Your faux concern is hypocritical. I promise you that my kids are going to be just fine.

See my comment to the post above. The parents’ behavior should not penalize that poor child.

Your children probably will be. Who said otherwise? Why make this an adversarial relationship? Especially when I’m clearly looking out for my students?

It's not your job to police what I do with my kids, and when you shroud your "concern" around "irresponsible parents" it makes you look petty.
To me, this reeks of jealous that you couldn't afford to take your kids on nice trips and/or picked a career where you don't have vacation flexibility.

And with this, you went too far.

I work HARD and I resent it when people carelessly and selfishly make my work harder. I suspect you would feel the same at your place of employment. It’s a reasonable response to being taken advantage of.

Jealousy? No. I vacation plenty, but at the appropriate time.

Good luck to you.

Then bring it up with your administration. Would you feel the same way if you had to do the same level of catch up work if the kid was out sick or for something like bereavement days? No? You just want to bash other parents for making different choices than you and make people feel bad.

Bereavement leave or sickness? I’ll go out of my way to help! Heck, I’ll Zoom entire lessons. But Disney? No. They don’t even compare and you know that.

If you feel bad, that has nothing to do with me.

So you don't *really* care if the kid is missing school, you just care when it's for a reason you deem unacceptable.

Well, the school system actually decides what is an acceptable reason for missing school. Not me. It’s all nicely lined out in the attendance policy. Bereavement leave and sickness are approved absences. Disney is not.

If you take your children out for a vacation, that is against policy. Period. If the school’s admin decides to work with you, realize they are going by out of their way (and having teachers do the same) so you can skirt policy.

Thank God my kids go to private school I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:We took our kids out during the school year to go toDisney y when my oldest was in K, 2, and 5 (the youngest is 3 years behind).

The oldest still got straight As and ended up in the TPMS magnet, then the Blair magnet. The youngest had straight As and qualified for both middle school magnets, but lost it in the lottery. He expects to get into a HS magnet eventually.

Missing a week in elementary school, especially early in the school year, will not make or break your kid.

However, this does not apply if they're in middle or high school.

It’s not about whether they’ll struggle academically. It’s about the message it sends.

We took ours out for Disney in 6th grade. He graduated from high school with honors and a scholarship. He has one year left in his Engineering degree, earning high grades. A few missed days of ES school for a trip to Disney did no harm.

Op, check the crowd calendar and plan around a weekend.

Good for you. Don’t care. Not the type of family I would ever want to be in.

I'll add that my husband is a teacher, and ds's teacher told us to go and not worry about it.

You don't care because your theory about priorities over one trip is a little off.

And you’ve ignored posts from teachers on here, expressing frustration with these trips.

Your kid’s teacher very likely said that because what the heck else is he/she supposed to do? You’re going to go on the trip regardless of what the teacher says.

I see a teacher or two saying don't expect them to do extra work for that student.

I also see a teacher or two say they don't worry about it.

Pp, my kid does well but he's certainly not superior.

It’s just obnoxious.

Kids get plenty of breaks, but rather than using those, you all just take your kids out for a week at a time. Why? Is the message to the kid that, as long as they get good grades, it doesn’t matter?

I think this is a fantastic message, that ultimately it’s the final product that matters. As is learning how to catch up. These are important skills in my profession.

Of course, you won’t admit that MCPS grade inflation is so rampant that the “final product” is a joke.

But sure — take the kid to Disney. If the kid falls behind, say, “well it’s a life lesson to learn to catch up.”

Is it also a life lesson that the rules don’t apply to you?

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Anonymous wrote:I think the parents with their undies in a bunch about this are mad that their kids whine about not going on good trips when our kids get back and say why they’ve been out of school.

Yes. My 6 year old is so jealous of your kid’s Disney trip, given that in her 6 years of life, she’s been to:

- WDW 4 times
- England
- Italy
- Sweden
- Estonia
- Finland
- Arizona
- California
- NYC countless times
- Hawaii twice

But yep. Jealousy is definitely it, because as you’ve so rightly implied, it’s not possible to go on good trips unless your kid misses school.

So clearly you’re teaching your kid international travel for her snowflake self is more important than the destruction of our planet. Isn’t that nice.

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Anonymous wrote:We want to take kids to go to Disney. Both kids attend same elementary school. The long time lining up at Disney world sounds painful to me, and we are thinking to pull kids out during school year to do so. Will that hurt anything for school report records? And, how bad is it to tell teacher/administration that is due to we are going to disney world?

If you have done it before, which month is the best to go to Disney World for shorter lines, pleasant weather and good deals?

IF you know this now I suggest getting teacher gifts early - back to school Starbucks card, etc. Doesn’t have to be huge but something that makes teacher look kindly on your family.

Do you really think a Starbucks gift card will prevent the teacher from losing respect for this family?

NP. I am a teacher. I promise you, a Disney trip in and of itself will not make me lose respect for a family. Please stop making us look bad (/petty/vindictive/etc.)!!!

Teacher here. I don’t think I’m being petty or vindictive. What I do is very important and yes, the child will miss instruction. I don’t have fluff days, even toward the end of the year. To say “go and have fun” trivializes what we do in the classroom. Perhaps students miss less at the elementary level. Still, you are building habits and setting priorities that will extend to high school.

Last year one student’s vacation cost me about 12 additional hours of work. I first had to prep an individualized unit. When the family returned, I was told they didn’t have any time to do the work on vacation. I then had to meet daily with the student to complete the assignments and catch him up with the rest of the class. That should not have been my responsibility.

It's your fault for taking on additional work for accommodating the student. Don't worry about what I am teaching my kids with regards to priorities / habit setting - you teachers are always telling us to do a better job parenting. Your faux concern is hypocritical. I promise you that my kids are going to be just fine.

See my comment to the post above. The parents’ behavior should not penalize that poor child.

Your children probably will be. Who said otherwise? Why make this an adversarial relationship? Especially when I’m clearly looking out for my students?

It's not your job to police what I do with my kids, and when you shroud your "concern" around "irresponsible parents" it makes you look petty.
To me, this reeks of jealous that you couldn't afford to take your kids on nice trips and/or picked a career where you don't have vacation flexibility.

And with this, you went too far.

I work HARD and I resent it when people carelessly and selfishly make my work harder. I suspect you would feel the same at your place of employment. It’s a reasonable response to being taken advantage of.

Jealousy? No. I vacation plenty, but at the appropriate time.

Good luck to you.

Then bring it up with your administration. Would you feel the same way if you had to do the same level of catch up work if the kid was out sick or for something like bereavement days? No? You just want to bash other parents for making different choices than you and make people feel bad.

Bereavement leave or sickness? I’ll go out of my way to help! Heck, I’ll Zoom entire lessons. But Disney? No. They don’t even compare and you know that.

If you feel bad, that has nothing to do with me.

So you don't *really* care if the kid is missing school, you just care when it's for a reason you deem unacceptable.

Well, the school system actually decides what is an acceptable reason for missing school. Not me. It’s all nicely lined out in the attendance policy. Bereavement leave and sickness are approved absences. Disney is not.

If you take your children out for a vacation, that is against policy. Period. If the school’s admin decides to work with you, realize they are going by out of their way (and having teachers do the same) so you can skirt policy.

Thank God my kids go to private school I guess.

Disney wouldn’t be an excused absence at my kid’s private school. Nor should it be.

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Anonymous wrote:We took our kids out during the school year to go toDisney y when my oldest was in K, 2, and 5 (the youngest is 3 years behind).

The oldest still got straight As and ended up in the TPMS magnet, then the Blair magnet. The youngest had straight As and qualified for both middle school magnets, but lost it in the lottery. He expects to get into a HS magnet eventually.

Missing a week in elementary school, especially early in the school year, will not make or break your kid.

However, this does not apply if they're in middle or high school.

It’s not about whether they’ll struggle academically. It’s about the message it sends.

We took ours out for Disney in 6th grade. He graduated from high school with honors and a scholarship. He has one year left in his Engineering degree, earning high grades. A few missed days of ES school for a trip to Disney did no harm.

Op, check the crowd calendar and plan around a weekend.

Good for you. Don’t care. Not the type of family I would ever want to be in.

I'll add that my husband is a teacher, and ds's teacher told us to go and not worry about it.

You don't care because your theory about priorities over one trip is a little off.

And you’ve ignored posts from teachers on here, expressing frustration with these trips.

Your kid’s teacher very likely said that because what the heck else is he/she supposed to do? You’re going to go on the trip regardless of what the teacher says.

I see a teacher or two saying don't expect them to do extra work for that student.

I also see a teacher or two say they don't worry about it.

Pp, my kid does well but he's certainly not superior.

It’s just obnoxious.

Kids get plenty of breaks, but rather than using those, you all just take your kids out for a week at a time. Why? Is the message to the kid that, as long as they get good grades, it doesn’t matter?

I think this is a fantastic message, that ultimately it’s the final product that matters. As is learning how to catch up. These are important skills in my profession.

Of course, you won’t admit that MCPS grade inflation is so rampant that the “final product” is a joke.

But sure — take the kid to Disney. If the kid falls behind, say, “well it’s a life lesson to learn to catch up.”

Is it also a life lesson that the rules don’t apply to you?

Again, I think these are GREAT life lessons. Including being clear-eyed about the grading scale.

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Anonymous wrote:We took our kids out during the school year to go toDisney y when my oldest was in K, 2, and 5 (the youngest is 3 years behind).

The oldest still got straight As and ended up in the TPMS magnet, then the Blair magnet. The youngest had straight As and qualified for both middle school magnets, but lost it in the lottery. He expects to get into a HS magnet eventually.

Missing a week in elementary school, especially early in the school year, will not make or break your kid.

However, this does not apply if they're in middle or high school.

It’s not about whether they’ll struggle academically. It’s about the message it sends.

We took ours out for Disney in 6th grade. He graduated from high school with honors and a scholarship. He has one year left in his Engineering degree, earning high grades. A few missed days of ES school for a trip to Disney did no harm.

Op, check the crowd calendar and plan around a weekend.

Good for you. Don’t care. Not the type of family I would ever want to be in.

I'll add that my husband is a teacher, and ds's teacher told us to go and not worry about it.

You don't care because your theory about priorities over one trip is a little off.

And you’ve ignored posts from teachers on here, expressing frustration with these trips.

Your kid’s teacher very likely said that because what the heck else is he/she supposed to do? You’re going to go on the trip regardless of what the teacher says.

I see a teacher or two saying don't expect them to do extra work for that student.

I also see a teacher or two say they don't worry about it.

Pp, my kid does well but he's certainly not superior.

It’s just obnoxious.

Kids get plenty of breaks, but rather than using those, you all just take your kids out for a week at a time. Why? Is the message to the kid that, as long as they get good grades, it doesn’t matter?

I think this is a fantastic message, that ultimately it’s the final product that matters. As is learning how to catch up. These are important skills in my profession.

Of course, you won’t admit that MCPS grade inflation is so rampant that the “final product” is a joke.

But sure — take the kid to Disney. If the kid falls behind, say, “well it’s a life lesson to learn to catch up.”

Is it also a life lesson that the rules don’t apply to you?

Again, I think these are GREAT life lessons. Including being clear-eyed about the grading scale.

So just to be clear: you think “the rules don’t apply to you” is a great life lesson. Got it.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the parents with their undies in a bunch about this are mad that their kids whine about not going on good trips when our kids get back and say why they’ve been out of school.

Yes. My 6 year old is so jealous of your kid’s Disney trip, given that in her 6 years of life, she’s been to:

- WDW 4 times
- England
- Italy
- Sweden
- Estonia
- Finland
- Arizona
- California
- NYC countless times
- Hawaii twice

But yep. Jealousy is definitely it, because as you’ve so rightly implied, it’s not possible to go on good trips unless your kid misses school.

So clearly you’re teaching your kid international travel for her snowflake self is more important than the destruction of our planet. Isn’t that nice.

Were those goalposts heavy to move?

Let’s just be real. You’re fine with destroying the planet but for some reason really fixated on a few missed days in elementary school. You’re not actually morally superior (quite the opposite) so sit down.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the parents with their undies in a bunch about this are mad that their kids whine about not going on good trips when our kids get back and say why they’ve been out of school.

Yes. My 6 year old is so jealous of your kid’s Disney trip, given that in her 6 years of life, she’s been to:

- WDW 4 times
- England
- Italy
- Sweden
- Estonia
- Finland
- Arizona
- California
- NYC countless times
- Hawaii twice

But yep. Jealousy is definitely it, because as you’ve so rightly implied, it’s not possible to go on good trips unless your kid misses school.

So clearly you’re teaching your kid international travel for her snowflake self is more important than the destruction of our planet. Isn’t that nice.

Were those goalposts heavy to move?

So you can dish it but not take it?

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Anonymous wrote:We took our kids out during the school year to go toDisney y when my oldest was in K, 2, and 5 (the youngest is 3 years behind).

The oldest still got straight As and ended up in the TPMS magnet, then the Blair magnet. The youngest had straight As and qualified for both middle school magnets, but lost it in the lottery. He expects to get into a HS magnet eventually.

Missing a week in elementary school, especially early in the school year, will not make or break your kid.

However, this does not apply if they're in middle or high school.

It’s not about whether they’ll struggle academically. It’s about the message it sends.

We took ours out for Disney in 6th grade. He graduated from high school with honors and a scholarship. He has one year left in his Engineering degree, earning high grades. A few missed days of ES school for a trip to Disney did no harm.

Op, check the crowd calendar and plan around a weekend.

Good for you. Don’t care. Not the type of family I would ever want to be in.

I'll add that my husband is a teacher, and ds's teacher told us to go and not worry about it.

You don't care because your theory about priorities over one trip is a little off.

And you’ve ignored posts from teachers on here, expressing frustration with these trips.

Your kid’s teacher very likely said that because what the heck else is he/she supposed to do? You’re going to go on the trip regardless of what the teacher says.

I see a teacher or two saying don't expect them to do extra work for that student.

I also see a teacher or two say they don't worry about it.

Pp, my kid does well but he's certainly not superior.

It’s just obnoxious.

Kids get plenty of breaks, but rather than using those, you all just take your kids out for a week at a time. Why? Is the message to the kid that, as long as they get good grades, it doesn’t matter?

I think this is a fantastic message, that ultimately it’s the final product that matters. As is learning how to catch up. These are important skills in my profession.

Of course, you won’t admit that MCPS grade inflation is so rampant that the “final product” is a joke.

But sure — take the kid to Disney. If the kid falls behind, say, “well it’s a life lesson to learn to catch up.”

Is it also a life lesson that the rules don’t apply to you?

Again, I think these are GREAT life lessons. Including being clear-eyed about the grading scale.

So just to be clear: you think “the rules don’t apply to you” is a great life lesson. Got it.

Yup. Specifically rules that aren’t real rules. Figuring out which rules matter and which don’t has been incredibly important to my success in life.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the parents with their undies in a bunch about this are mad that their kids whine about not going on good trips when our kids get back and say why they’ve been out of school.

Yes. My 6 year old is so jealous of your kid’s Disney trip, given that in her 6 years of life, she’s been to:

- WDW 4 times
- England
- Italy
- Sweden
- Estonia
- Finland
- Arizona
- California
- NYC countless times
- Hawaii twice

But yep. Jealousy is definitely it, because as you’ve so rightly implied, it’s not possible to go on good trips unless your kid misses school.

So clearly you’re teaching your kid international travel for her snowflake self is more important than the destruction of our planet. Isn’t that nice.

Were those goalposts heavy to move?

Let’s just be real. You’re fine with destroying the planet but for some reason really fixated on a few missed days in elementary school. You’re not actually morally superior (quite the opposite) so sit down.

Is this really the direction you want to take this? We have one kid. We live in a small home. We drive a fully electric car.

You’re also talking about travel, likely by plane or by gas powered car.

But sure — take the focus away from this discussion because you have no other reply.