School and camping
How many pull their kids from school for a few camping trips during the school schedule? Do you pull them out for alot of days? Or do you only try to work around school holidays etc.?
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Cyberschool so DD can take her work with her. She works ahead before the trip, then extra after the trip, so it is a pretty light schedule during the trip.
And we do believe a well rounded education includes both school and non-school items as well as family. Mind you, the things we do are in addition to her normal school workload. No slacking here ;)
Here in Western PA, our local school district will allow ONE family vacation time, up to 7 days. Not two trips of 3 days, not a couple of Fridays. Oh, and it must be approved by the SCHOOL BOARD in writing at least 2 weeks before the date. Doesn't matter about progress or grades, either. My DD was 97% overall for the year and still had these restrictions- until we changed that by moving to cyberschool two years ago.
We believe in goal based education. Complete the work in a proper manner. Sometimes it takes less time, sometimes more. But IMHO, just putting a fixed amount of time in a given location without regard to progress or outcome is more like moving prisoners than students ;)
And we do believe a well rounded education includes both school and non-school items as well as family. Mind you, the things we do are in addition to her normal school workload. No slacking here ;)
Here in Western PA, our local school district will allow ONE family vacation time, up to 7 days. Not two trips of 3 days, not a couple of Fridays. Oh, and it must be approved by the SCHOOL BOARD in writing at least 2 weeks before the date. Doesn't matter about progress or grades, either. My DD was 97% overall for the year and still had these restrictions- until we changed that by moving to cyberschool two years ago.
We believe in goal based education. Complete the work in a proper manner. Sometimes it takes less time, sometimes more. But IMHO, just putting a fixed amount of time in a given location without regard to progress or outcome is more like moving prisoners than students ;)
