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Of course I take vacation. We go on plenty of vacations as a family. However, here's the thing: They're required to be in school a certain number of days. They get built-in vacations that we, as adults, don't get (unless you're a teacher). That means that, outside of those vacation times, they're in school. I would understand your argument if school vacations didn't exist and kids just had a certain number of floating vacation days (like adults do), but [b]that's not how it works[/b]. [/quote]

DP. It's how it works in my current family, and in my family of origin. There's even a word in German for days when you're not really sick but you just plain do not want to go to school or work: krank feiern. My sibling and I both have doctoral degrees, so it doesn't seem to have hurt our academic inclinations much.[/quote]

I'm happy that krank feiern worked well for your German family in Germany, but something tells me that the idea that people can choose to not go to work or school when they don't feel like it would not end well in America...

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I'm the PP you're responding to, and actually it worked well for my American family right here in the US. Where the expression (in English) is generally "to take a personal day". You haven't heard of that?[/quote]

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