lori1043
Where IS that EASY button advertised on TV?
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- Nov 2, 2006
My dad has had cancer this year and is 70 and we want to take them when it's not too hot for them and they can both still enjoy it. We also all love Christmas and want to experience it Disney style.
Our school system has a policy in our handbook that teachers are not required to send work that will be missed while the child is on vacation. We put it in the child's desk and it has to be made up on return. When parents ask for work we copy the handbook and send them that quote. Rarely do they question this. If we're in the middle of a unit, I tell the students to continue where we are.
I am sorry to hear about your dad. Cancer does suck-been there. I hope he is healing completely! Enjoy the trip!
AND I like this policy at your school, makes sense! Why should a teacher have to go to allof that trouble if the kids will be pre-occupied anyway and not do it. As a homeschooler, I do make my children document something we learn on every vacation. Even if it is Disney, I will find SOMETHING to make it a bit educational-like use EPCOT-that place is crawling with education-and since it is hands on, they remember it more often than not. If not about EPCOT I will have them write about the trip when we get home. When we have been to NW Georgia to a cabin, there is TONS for them to learn digging in the dirt and finding rocks in streams,etc. And after our big WDW clelbration trip- we will start saving for Washington DC and Williamsburg for history. I STILL remember so much from that area when my parents brought me at 8 years old.