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Originally Posted by ct
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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My wife is the same way about missing school but when we went to WDW, we took them out for a week at the end of February. It was a great time to go. There were almost no lines anywhere and the weather was in the mid-70's, which was great considering we drove from home to the airport in the snow. The boys survived missing the week of school and it didn't affect their grades at all.