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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hot take - your kids school would prefer if you lied to them. If they can excuse the absence it improves their truancy rate. Win-win![/quote]

I agree with this even though I've never lied about absences to our school. However my kid misses a decent amount of school for illness each year (not serious illness, just very prone to colds and catches everything that runs through the school or the extra curricular) and I know the admin at our DCPS thinks I'm using illness as an excuse to take the kid out for travel and doesn't care. Once my kid was out (for illness) on the day before a scheduled four day weekend (we spent the entire weekend in DC with a kid sick with a stomach bug) and when I dropped DC off at school after the break, I ran into the admin who was like "how as your weekend? what did you guys do?" even though we had corresponded the previous week about my child's stomach bug. She was very wink-wink in the conversation when I said we'd just stayed home while DC recovered and were glad DH and I had not gotten sick as well.

The truancy rate is really their main focus. If they can find a way to excuse the absences, they will. We don't travel a lot so I've never tested this, but I am confident it wouldn't be that hard to get away with.[/quote]

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