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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Take trips when there is no school and during the 10 weeks students have off in the summer. [/quote]

This isn't practical with large extended families. Ours lives up and down the West Coast. They are all several hours from each other, some 3-4 and others 10-12. They all get together for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter. There is nothing my kids love more than running around with a pack of cousins. You don't have the same experience visiting 2-4 at a time and it would take weeks to travel separately to visit each one over the summer. This isn't practical if you work and it isn't the same as the whole family getting together.

Yes, MCPS has 10 days at Spring Break but they go back the Tuesday after Easter. This means that we are flying out on Monday the day after Easter and the kids will be exhausted from the long flight the day before and time change on their first day back to school. At least they have the Monday off or we would be running out of Grandma's house after finding one egg to the airport. [/quote]

Then move, or as another PP suggested, homeschool.  I don't know what else to tell you.  But bitching that the school calendar doesn't permit cross-country travel for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter is fucking ridiculous.  And BTW, you still get a week of for Christmas - get your ass on a plane on Saturday or Sunday, and you'll have a whole week with your family.  Although I suspect that your extended family relishes those years when you can't make it to the annual gathering, if you always voice such absurd complaints.  [/quote]

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