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[quote=Anonymous]Such an interesting topic, I can't wait to read the thread to see what the consensus is! We've moved around and been at different elementary schools, and there always seems to be a handful of families that have no issue with taking off during school days, and then they complain about getting angry letters from the school.

I can see both perspectives. I love adventures and love experiential learning, so if there's a great opportunity for our kids for a cool adventure, my gut instinct is to go for it, although we haven't operated that way in practice. But having volunteered in the classroom, I know how hard the teachers have to work to get kids to learn at the level they're expected to, and having to wrangle absent families just makes it all the more complicated.

I guess we haven't taken time off of school days because in the back of my mind, I've felt like the school and staff and teachers are giving it their all to provide our kids with a good education, so I want us to do our part to help them. I tend to see the world with that kind of reciprocity in mind. [/quote]

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