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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn't teach a lazy student that it's ok to miss school for vacation, and I say that as someone who's taking their 5th grader out of school to Dallas that same day for the eclipse. [/quote]

Snort.  Punish the whole family by denying a vacation!  That will motivate MS boys, right?

OP, go!  One school day one way or the other won’t make or break your kid.  [/quote]

Yes, his siblings temporarily hating him for this WILL motivate him, actually. [/quote]
OP here. The kids don’t even know we have the week off yet, let alone that we might travel. Of course if we decide not to go, we would never stoop so low as to throw our son under the bus! How cruel! [/quote]

What's cruel is to sabotage a child who's already struggling academically. [/quote]

Not OP, but c'mon. So much hyperbole here.

It's just one day. Time spent with family will be a lifelong memory. A missed school day in middle school is a blip in time in the larger scheme of life. [/quote]

And for a child who's not having problems, my answer would be different. But a lazy child CANNOT be taught that school doesn't matter.[/quote]

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