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bwr827

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JMcMahonEsq said:
Makes sense. HS's around us start looking at transcripts in 7th grade for scholarships and such so we kinda of made that the end line. It also factors in that they both travel for sports (one in winter for wrestling and one in spring/summer for baseball) so they end up missing the selected friday/mondays througout the year, so we don't really want to pull them out of school for longer periods if we can avoid it. Our districs have become sticklers for non-medical absences. While surely hot, we have really come to appreciate the late august times for visiting parks. Most of southern schools are already back in session, and many in north/west have already taken their vacations.
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As a Canadian, it’s interesting to read about what I assume is an American experience re: school considerations.

My oldest will be in high school at the estimated time of our next WDW vacation, and all I did was check the school calendar to ensure we can avoid exam weeks.

We would still otherwise pull them out for two full weeks without concern about college/university prospects (at least in the first year or two of high school).
 
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JMcMahonEsq

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bwr827 said:
As a Canadian, it’s interesting to read about what I assume is an American experience re: school considerations.

My oldest will be in high school at the estimated time of our next WDW vacation, and all I did was check the school calendar to ensure we can avoid exam weeks.

We would still otherwise pull them out for two full weeks without concern about college/university prospects (at least in the first year or two of high school).
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I will be honest I don't think we would even come close to considering pulling the kids out of HS for even a week, let alone 2 full weeks. Part of that is going to be bc of sports teams and other commitments that we don't want them to miss. But we wouldn't want to put them in the position of being behind on assignments, class participation, ect., either. Now both our boys are very focused on some very competitive private/prep high schools and colleges there after so this could completely be a subjective mindset as opposed to American/Canadian school consideration.
 
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Disneylover69

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JMcMahonEsq said:
I will be honest I don't think we would even come close to considering pulling the kids out of HS for even a week, let alone 2 full weeks. Part of that is going to be bc of sports teams and other commitments that we don't want them to miss. But we wouldn't want to put them in the position of being behind on assignments, class participation, ect., either. Now both our boys are very focused on some very competitive private/prep high schools and colleges there after so this could completely be a subjective mindset as opposed to American/Canadian school consideration.
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Yea you shouldn’t take kids out of school especially in high school when they rank all the students against each other, and that number is important when applying to college.

Plus it also creates a poor precedent for kids to take them out of school for vacation when it could be scheduled without missing school days even if it is more expensive. If they miss school for vacation they might think it’s acceptable to miss it for other reasons and then use the excuse of “well I missed it for Disney why can’t I miss it for XYZ”
 
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-vickimouse-

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Disneylover69 said:
Yea you shouldn’t take kids out of school especially in high school when they rank all the students against each other, and that number is important when applying to college.

Plus it also creates a poor precedent for kids to take them out of school for vacation when it could be scheduled without missing school days even if it is more expensive. If they miss school for vacation they might think it’s acceptable to miss it for other reasons and then use the excuse of “well I missed it for Disney why can’t I miss it for XYZ”
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Add on to that the real reason schools frown on kids being gone on family vacations: funding. The funding schools get from the government is directly tied to student attendance.

I was a school secretary. :)
 
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lewisc

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-vickimouse- said:
Add on to that the real reason schools frown on kids being gone on family vacations: funding. The funding schools get from the government is directly tied to student attendance.

I was a school secretary. :)
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PPs gave some reasons why school attendance is important. Those are some of the reasons funding is related to attendance.

Funding issues motivates districts to encourage attendance.
 

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