mikestaple
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I agree wholeheartedly with Mikestaple. We pulled our kids out of school for a week in late January to go to Colorado two years back. Pricing for that week was about half of what it would have cost us during a school break period.
I have no problems pulling my kids out of school for family trips. The way I see it, teachers have no problem assigning homework and major projects during school downtime like Christmas and Spring breaks (including huge math packets and reading lists for the summer!) why shouldn't I give my kids a break? Time off should be time off.
Amen! And art projects on foreign countries or specific planets of the solar system for 7 year olds disguised as Social Studies or Science projects assigned the day before Thanksgiving, and due the Tuesday after, will guarantee that I yank the little ones out of school for 2 more days during the school year.