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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm more with OP, I don't have this lackadaisical attitude toward it.  I get a couple days here and there or something really special that can't be done any other time (destination family wedding or something) but I would do my best to avoid taking them out of school.

[b]I do think it sends a message to kids that school doesn't matter.  I mean, if you are telling them that school is important and that it's important to try their best every day and to pay attention, this conflicts with that message, no?[/b]

And my kids are older now, so it's not like I'll realize later that elementary school wasn't that important.  Actually the kids I knew whose parents used to take them out all the time (like for Disney trips, just because there were fewer crowds then) now are not all that serious about school.  [/quote]

[b]I think it sends the message that there is more than one way to learn. School is one way. Traveling is another way.[/b] [/quote]

Keep telling yourself that's why you do it.  [/quote]

I tell them that family is as important as school. It's about balance. Especially in elementary school. But I'm not a dogmatic person by nature. I can see how someone who is can't see this point the way I do[/quote]
You have all summer and every break to be family. Why do you have to be family on school days?[/quote]

DP here. Because the school isn’t in charge of me and when I decide to take vacations.[/quote]

Actually they are.  There are such things as truancy laws, and a student absent for a week or more for a family trip is truant.  You just don't think the laws apply to you because you're UMC.  They only apply to poor people.  [/quote]

This. How many times do you hear people complaining about lower income kids missing school? Maybe they are with family, maybe they traveled, maybe...whatever. All the DCUM crowd would say things such as: the parents don’t value education, the kids are falling behind, it’s not fair to the teachers. Look in the mirror, folks.[/quote]

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