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[quote=Anonymous]Missing a week before 3rd grade shouldn't have any academic impact on your child. If you are in MD and your school has implemented 2.0 it is even less of an impact. Since there is no acceleration, your child really wouldn't be missing much other than repetition. ES principals are not discouraging absences because they affect the academic progress. They get rated on how many overall unexcused absences occur within the population. Sad but true.

We don't take time off during the school year but I completely understand why people do it. Our relatives on the West Coast have much more family friendly school breaks. They have 1.5 weeks at Thanksgiving rather than 2 days and an additional week off around Christmas. My office closes down longer at Christmas than MCPS. MCPS has all of these ridiculous days off in the middle of the week or two half days next to each other. Our family reunions usually occur during the summer but down the road when they shift back to Thanksgiving or around Christmas, we probably will take off to attend. I can also understand that families on a budget need to travel on off times.

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