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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder how old the children are of the ABSOLUTELY NO NOT EVER parents. [/quote]

My DS is 6. We have pulled him from school for a medical reason (family member in the hospital) and death in the family. I won't say that I would never pull him from school for a vacation but it would sure need to be a doozy of a vacation that couldn't be done at any other time.

I want him to understand that his education is important and that means that you go to school when school is in session. Could he make up the work that he is missing pretty easily? Yes. He is not working on anything earth shatteringly hard. That is not the point. The point is that his responsibility right now is to be getting an education and we have chosen to have him educates at a school so he needs to be in school.

We are a two parent working family. We go on vacation when he has vacation. It works for us and saves us money on camp. I don't have enough vacation time to take off 2 weeks in a row as it is, thanks to snow days and the Federal Government granting impromptu holidays (The extra day at Christmas and President Bush's funeral) so I would not be booking that long of a trip as it is.

I don't think it is fair to ask his teachers for homework packets and make up work or quizzes because we decided to pull him out to go to Disney or visit another country or something along those lines.

I recognize that you can learn a lot while traveling, we visit different National Parks and museums and the like when we travel. It is great. DS has fun and learns stuff! Awesome. Amazingly, he can do that when traveling during the summer and still learn things at school during the school year.

There are good reasons for kids to miss school but I don't count vacationing as one of those reasons. But that is my family, everyone is going to operate based on what they feel works best for their family. That is fine and dandy. [b]But there are very few vacations that are taken during the school year that could not be taken during one of the many vacations. [/b]

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...[b]unless you have work schedules that do not coincide with the school calendar. [/b] [/quote]

Exactly.  My work's busy season is the summer because Congress can't get its act together and appropriate funding when it should.  I know the response will be to then get another job but I'm not going to leave a job with excellent flexibility just because summer is the busy season. FWIW, I don't generally pull my kids of school for vacations, but I'm smart enough to know there are always exceptions.[/quote]

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