re: Checking Kids Out of School for Vacation

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It's your kid. You can screw them up however you like

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True for all parents.

My son (my other kids are pre Kindergarten) and I did a road trip through Ontario and Quebec last fall, and we are going to Boston and Maine this fall. We've done road trips through California and Arizona in the past, and we went to Turks and Caicos in the spring. We've also missed a few weeks for Disney. He definitely gets more out of these trips than a week of school.

We always let the school know weeks ahead of time as a courtesy, and I tell them that the trip is educational.