Solar eclipse April 8, would you pull kids out of school

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Anonymous wrote:We're pulling our middle-schoolers out to fly to Texas, so they'll miss 3 days of school (and meeting about a dozen family members there).

Like other posters have said, it's just not that big a deal unless you see totality. And that is amazing to experience.

This will be my kids' second eclipse (they were little in 2017 but they remember it)!

We saw totality in 2017. I cannot imagine needing or wanting to see it again, let alone buying plane tickets for it! (And we travel often!)

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We are traveling for this, yes

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We’re driving up to Niagara Falls and going to make a mini-vacation out of it. Booked the hotel months ago and already got the glasses.

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Won't everyone have just returned from spring break? We fly home on the 30th.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents live in a city that is very close to the path of totality for the solar eclipse on 4/8. Like maybe a 20-30 minute drive away from totality and even at their own place they will be extremely close and should see most of it. Is it worth pulling the kids from school to see it? K and 2nd grade but the 2nd grader has missed a lot of days already this year (I think 6 so far?) due to illness and we’d have to miss 4/9 as well for a travel day. Maybe I could have him write a science report on it, hah.

My kid has missed more days than that for illness and yes we're going to visit family to see it. It's supposed to be amazing.

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Anonymous wrote:Won't everyone have just returned from spring break? We fly home on the 30th.

We won’t be traveling anywhere for spring break this year. I know, quelle horreur!

But yes, it is the week after spring break for most people. Sadly the school systems don’t control the date of Easter or the date of the eclipse.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents live in a city that is very close to the path of totality for the solar eclipse on 4/8. Like maybe a 20-30 minute drive away from totality and even at their own place they will be extremely close and should see most of it. Is it worth pulling the kids from school to see it? K and 2nd grade but the 2nd grader has missed a lot of days already this year (I think 6 so far?) due to illness and we’d have to miss 4/9 as well for a travel day. Maybe I could have him write a science report on it, hah.

No.

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Anonymous wrote:We're pulling our middle-schoolers out to fly to Texas, so they'll miss 3 days of school (and meeting about a dozen family members there).

Like other posters have said, it's just not that big a deal unless you see totality. And that is amazing to experience.

This will be my kids' second eclipse (they were little in 2017 but they remember it)!

Wasn’t this when Trump almost burnt his eyeballs looking up at it directly? I was driving up rockville pike and pulled over. Will it be seen locally?

We saw totality in 2017. I cannot imagine needing or wanting to see it again, let alone buying plane tickets for it! (And we travel often!)

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In our experience from last time, getting there awsn't too bad because some people go early, and some come much closer to the actual eclipse (not time leading up to it). Leaving was the issue, since people tend to leave around the same time. We got stuck in traffic, but did make it in time for our flight as we set aside some time.