Kids and vacation memoquery

The Cheesehusker, Trade W · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 8

Curious as to responses....

Friend of mine has a chance to take his kids to Hawaii for the week
following Thanksgiving. This would mean his kids would miss that
entire week of school. His ex-wife would prefer they not go for the
entire week as she feels they would miss too much school and it would
harm them academically. The father believes that he can work with the
teachers to ensure the kids in question - 8th and 5th grade - have
ample work to do and will have online access.

Query - is this too much time off school? What say you as parents?
I'll post my thoughts later on....

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aborgman · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 98

The Cheesehusker, Trade Warrior wrote:
> Curious as to responses....
>
> Friend of mine has a chance to take his kids to Hawaii for the week
> following Thanksgiving. This would mean his kids would miss that
> entire week of school. His ex-wife would prefer they not go for the
> entire week as she feels they would miss too much school and it would
> harm them academically. The father believes that he can work with the
> teachers to ensure the kids in question - 8th and 5th grade - have
> ample work to do and will have online access.
>
> Query - is this too much time off school? What say you as parents?
> I'll post my thoughts later on....

1 week... and he's going to work with the teachers to make sure nothing
is missed?

Definitely not too much time off IMO.

--
Aaron

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Randolph M. Jones · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 69

The Cheesehusker, Trade Warrior wrote:
> Curious as to responses....
>
> Friend of mine has a chance to take his kids to Hawaii for the week
> following Thanksgiving. This would mean his kids would miss that
> entire week of school. His ex-wife would prefer they not go for the
> entire week as she feels they would miss too much school and it would
> harm them academically. The father believes that he can work with the
> teachers to ensure the kids in question - 8th and 5th grade - have
> ample work to do and will have online access.
>
> Query - is this too much time off school? What say you as parents?
> I'll post my thoughts later on....

I think a week is a lot but not too much, and that it should be handled
for opportunities like this. The kids will probably remember a week in
Hawaii for the rest of their lives, and they might even learn a thing or
two they wouldn't have learned if they just stayed in school that week.
Plus, they get the chance to learn that school doesn't stop just
because they leave for a week, and they are responsible for whatever
gets covered that week. I might even advocate suggesting the teacher
give the kids an extra assignment to present something to the class
about the trip.

the_andrew_smith · Joined: 19 Oct 2007 Posts: 50

On Jan 9, 2:28 pm, "The Cheesehusker, Trade Warrior"
wrote:
> Curious as to responses....
>
> Friend of mine has a chance to take his kids to Hawaii for the week
> following Thanksgiving. This would mean his kids would miss that
> entire week of school. His ex-wife would prefer they not go for the
> entire week as she feels they would miss too much school and it would
> harm them academically. The father believes that he can work with the
> teachers to ensure the kids in question - 8th and 5th grade - have
> ample work to do and will have online access.
>
> Query - is this too much time off school? What say you as parents?

One week of school versus a trip to Hawaii? Nah, that week will never
affect them adversely.

As a parent? My kid's 11 months old, she's smarter than anyone else.

a.

McMahone · Joined: 19 Oct 2007 Posts: 10

On Jan 9, 1:28 pm, "The Cheesehusker, Trade Warrior"
wrote:
> Curious as to responses....
>
> Friend of mine has a chance to take his kids to Hawaii for the week
> following Thanksgiving. This would mean his kids would miss that
> entire week of school. His ex-wife would prefer they not go for the
> entire week as she feels they would miss too much school and it would
> harm them academically. The father believes that he can work with the
> teachers to ensure the kids in question - 8th and 5th grade - have
> ample work to do and will have online access.
>
> Query - is this too much time off school? What say you as parents?
> I'll post my thoughts later on....

There was one year (6th grade incidently) when I missed two weeks of
school because of a family trip. Teachers are all over the map on
this but any good ones should be willing to work with them to make
sure the kid doesn't fall behind. One week is a fair bit, but hardly
prohibitive at that age.

Marty

Damon Hynes · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 7

On Jan 9, 1:28 pm, "The Cheesehusker, Trade Warrior"
wrote:
> Curious as to responses....
>
> Friend of mine has a chance to take his kids to Hawaii for the week
> following Thanksgiving. This would mean his kids would miss that
> entire week of school. His ex-wife would prefer they not go for the
> entire week as she feels they would miss too much school and it would
> harm them academically. The father believes that he can work with the
> teachers to ensure the kids in question - 8th and 5th grade - have
> ample work to do and will have online access.
>
> Query - is this too much time off school? What say you as parents?
> I'll post my thoughts later on....

Took my kiddies to Kona last February, 5th and 9th graders. They
worked ahead and caught up afterward. They missed a total of 4 school
days. Big whoop. I've also gone to St Simons and they missed 2 days,
RUSH concert and missed 1.5.

Chris Mihos · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 30

On Jan 9, 2:28 pm, "The Cheesehusker, Trade Warrior"
wrote:
> Curious as to responses....
>
> Friend of mine has a chance to take his kids to Hawaii for the week
> following Thanksgiving. This would mean his kids would miss that
> entire week of school. His ex-wife would prefer they not go for the
> entire week as she feels they would miss too much school and it would
> harm them academically. The father believes that he can work with the
> teachers to ensure the kids in question - 8th and 5th grade - have
> ample work to do and will have online access.
>
> Query - is this too much time off school? What say you as parents?
> I'll post my thoughts later on....

call gramma and grampa; have them babysit; friend and wife go to
hawaii.

(whenever I think of family vacations to Hawaii, I think of that Brady
Bunch two-part episode. watch out for the tarantula, greg!!)

Carl Banks · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 12

The Cheesehusker, Trade Warrior, exactly what drugs were you high on when
you wrote:
> Curious as to responses....
>
> Friend of mine has a chance to take his kids to Hawaii for the week
> following Thanksgiving. This would mean his kids would miss that entire
> week of school. His ex-wife would prefer they not go for the entire
> week as she feels they would miss too much school and it would harm them
> academically. The father believes that he can work with the teachers to
> ensure the kids in question - 8th and 5th grade - have ample work to do
> and will have online access.
>
> Query - is this too much time off school? What say you as parents? I'll
> post my thoughts later on....

As if school is so important missing a week of it will cripple you for
life. Whatever. I'm pretty sure learning the secret to multiplying
numbers with four whole digits, or learning what John Tyler's cabinet was
up to, is so

I estimate I missed a week or more of school ten times or more, and I may
have made up the work once or twice out of those ten time. And look at
me know.

I suspect ex-wifey is just being the bitch she was that originally led to
their divorce in the first place.

--
Carl Banks

"That's in case you were thinking about getting up again, tree."
-- Raz

btpage0630 · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 25

On Jan 9, 2:28 pm, "The Cheesehusker, Trade Warrior"
wrote:
> Curious as to responses....
>
> Friend of mine has a chance to take his kids to Hawaii for the week
> following Thanksgiving. This would mean his kids would miss that
> entire week of school. His ex-wife would prefer they not go for the
> entire week as she feels they would miss too much school and it would
> harm them academically. The father believes that he can work with the
> teachers to ensure the kids in question - 8th and 5th grade - have
> ample work to do and will have online access.
>
> Query - is this too much time off school? What say you as parents?
> I'll post my thoughts later on....

It sounds to me like his ex-wife really is just trying to throw up a
roadblock with reasonable sounding excuses. 1 week is completely
reasonably to make up school work. I can't imagine that harming them
academically.

Brent

Chris Mihos · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 30

On Jan 9, 4:17 pm, Chris Mihos wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2:28 pm, "The Cheesehusker, Trade Warrior"
>
> wrote:
> > Curious as to responses....
>
> > Friend of mine has a chance to take his kids to Hawaii for the week
> > following Thanksgiving. This would mean his kids would miss that
> > entire week of school. His ex-wife would prefer they not go for the
> > entire week as she feels they would miss too much school and it would
> > harm them academically. The father believes that he can work with the
> > teachers to ensure the kids in question - 8th and 5th grade - have
> > ample work to do and will have online access.
>
> > Query - is this too much time off school? What say you as parents?
> > I'll post my thoughts later on....
>
> call gramma and grampa; have them babysit; friend and wife go to
> hawaii.

oh it's his *ex-*wife. I misread.

ok, call gramma and grampa; have them babysit; friend and girlfriend
go to
hawaii and send taunting postcards to ex-wife.

Ike · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 8

The Cheesehusker, Trade Warrior wrote:

> Curious as to responses....
>
> Friend of mine has a chance to take his kids to Hawaii for the week
> following Thanksgiving. This would mean his kids would miss that
> entire week of school. His ex-wife would prefer they not go for the
> entire week as she feels they would miss too much school and it would
> harm them academically. The father believes that he can work with the
> teachers to ensure the kids in question - 8th and 5th grade - have
> ample work to do and will have online access.
>
> Query - is this too much time off school? What say you as parents?
> I'll post my thoughts later on....

Sounds like the ex has sour grapes issues.

A week is nothing. And in some states that week is a short one anyway.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime trip, for many kids.

--
yrs, Ike

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ground and tackles you.... When you put those black shoes on
tomorrow, and you put on that jersey without your name on the back
and you put that plain helmet on, that's tradition. Penn State
tradition!

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Ike · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 8

Peach wrote:

>
>
> Heh. How timely.... I've been scheduled (once again) to go to
> London...end of February. I told Anna she couldn't go because of
> school. (But it's mostly because I can't cover the cost of her plane
> ticket.)

that stinks.

jimbrowndoc · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 42

On Jan 9, 2:16 pm, wrote:
> The Cheesehusker, Trade Warrior wrote:
>
> > Curious as to responses....
>
> > Friend of mine has a chance to take his kids to Hawaii for the week
> > following Thanksgiving. This would mean his kids would miss that
> > entire week of school. His ex-wife would prefer they not go for the
> > entire week as she feels they would miss too much school and it would
> > harm them academically. The father believes that he can work with the
> > teachers to ensure the kids in question - 8th and 5th grade - have
> > ample work to do and will have online access.
>
> > Query - is this too much time off school? What say you as parents?
> > I'll post my thoughts later on....
>
> 1 week... and he's going to work with the teachers to make sure nothing
> is missed?
>
> Definitely not too much time off IMO.

Ditto.

Peach · Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 57

On Jan 9, 2:56 pm, Ike wrote:
> Peach wrote:
>
> > Heh. How timely.... I've been scheduled (once again) to go to
> > London...end of February. I told Anna she couldn't go because of
> > school. (But it's mostly because I can't cover the cost of her plane
> > ticket.)
>
> that stinks.

Yea, well, on the bright side, I got my car back from the body shop,
and it looks beyootifull, once again. Life happens.

Peach

Jaybyrd · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 28

On Jan 9, 2:28 pm, "The Cheesehusker, Trade Warrior"
wrote:
> Curious as to responses....
>
> Friend of mine has a chance to take his kids to Hawaii for the week
> following Thanksgiving. This would mean his kids would miss that
> entire week of school. His ex-wife would prefer they not go for the
> entire week as she feels they would miss too much school and it would
> harm them academically. The father believes that he can work with the
> teachers to ensure the kids in question - 8th and 5th grade - have
> ample work to do and will have online access.
>
> Query - is this too much time off school? What say you as parents?
> I'll post my thoughts later on....

this depends entirely on the kid(s) in question. Some can absolutely
miss that amount of time and have no trouble keeping up. Hawaii may
not have much of an "educational experience" but other vacations
(where you actually learn something) would be good alternatives for a
week at school and a shame for the right kind of kid to miss.

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