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09-02-2014 09:57 AM
09-02-2014 10:18 AM
If I drive about 12 miles and go over a mountain I'm probably where you live and our schools start about 10 days before the northern VA schools - mostly because the area is rural and many live on unpaved roads, the country back roads are sometimes the last to get sanded, etc. I'm soon to be 60 and my parents would not allow us to get out of school for anything. It was drilled into us that school was our JOB growing up and we were expected to treat it as such. If we stayed home sick we were told we didn't get well when the school bus came home at night. If you didn't go to school, you didn't get to go out with friends. I've seen this when I have been on cruises - there are kids there during times when there are no holidays when kids should be in school - I figure some may be homeschooled and some may be on year round school but I'm guessing most don't fall into these two categories.
09-02-2014 10:21 AM
I never took our son out for vacation but I did for out of town funerals that were 3 or 4 days but we always brought the homework and assignments so they would be right on track. We also had teacher's email address and phone number in case we had questions.
09-02-2014 10:28 AM
09-02-2014 10:29 AM
I don't think children should be taken out of school for vacations.
09-02-2014 10:32 AM
09-02-2014 10:33 AM
09-02-2014 10:36 AM
This rarely happened when I went to school in the 60s, unless there was a family emergency. We were given homework assignments.
Now a days, it appears quite common. I know families that routinely take their school age children out of school for vacations. They are limited as to how many days a child can miss. But it still bothers me where they place their priorities.
09-02-2014 10:53 AM
09-02-2014 10:53 AM
I have never and would never take my children out of school for a vacation. I assume many of the children I see out during the school year may be homeschooled.
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