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One other thought Amnorix, altho your wife still may not agree. Last year wife and I pulled the kids out for last 3 days of school for a road trip to Orlando (1st drive). Mostly Universal trip, but did 2 nights @Pop Century, w/ 1 day @Magic Kingdom, then we switched to Hard Rock Hotel (AWESOME!!).
Anyway, my wife was very much against missing school too, to get an early start and beat much of the school's out crowd. Ours were 13 and 10 yrs old, 7th and 4th grade. School teachers and principals didn't love it, but my point was the family bonding and memories are worth far more to these kids' lives than 2-3 days of school. 2-3 days of school isn't even a blip on the long term education of a young human being. They learn FAR more about life, living life, than sitting in a school taking tests. This applies as a 1 time exception, not a rule, and we explained that carefully to the kids, so they don't think we'll do this again. It was very much worth it, didn't hit the post-school crowds til the last 2 days of our trip, and we were wearing down and not out as much anyway by then.
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