what an ordeal!! I'm so not looking forward to that!
Good luck....buy Kaylee's teacher a big huge present....maybe she won't take attendance next week!
No kidding
. It's not the teacher but the principal and the county truancy office. Kaylee has and awesome teacher. She just called to warn me and see if I could get some kind of Dr's note just to cover us in case.
My mom and I did this all the time. I was very rarely sick when I missed school, they didn't need to know that though. 
Me either
. My mom let me stay home whenever I wanted to.
Hi Nichole! Hopefully everything will work out. Glad your not stressing anymore. I think that's a great idea. Have you gotten your packing done yet?
Absolutely done stressing
. I was so exhausted from it yesterday. No packing is not done. I have the final load of laundry in now just to add to our carry on's. Tom hasn't packed yet at all
I will prbably just end up packing his stuff too. I have to take the dogs to my moms tomorrow after I check in for the flights and I will get those meds from her too. How is your packing coming along.
SO sorry to hear about all the school issues. I went and checked Avery's school for next year. Their policy is 18 excused/unexcused absences or 10% of the year. I agree that it has to do with money and connections. So frustrating!
Glad you have put it all behind you and are ready for vacation!! Can't wait to meet you guys!!
2-little Cayley wanted me to type these numbers -not sure why 3
Cayley is so funny. I think Avery will be fine with 18 days. That is more reasonable. Ready for vacation. Well soon as I get packed.
Homeschool is the only way out in our backwoods states! That witch I had a chat with over at the county offices stressed in her southern hick snarley voice that once you're being
watched they can follow you through the private schools too. I wanted to tell her to kiss something but I already knew I was leaving. I just needed a couple of weeks to get my stuff in order. I was told once you go before the judge you no longer have the home school option. TN sounds very much like SC. $ $ $. It's extremely obvious what their priorities are....MONEY and NOT our kids! I never miss the public school system. I am tickled to death to be out of it. When High School rolls around they may decide to go back, who knows? But for now we're happy as can be. No worries of sickness, lice, child abuse, kidnapping, kids being picked on, school shootings, teacher showing favorites...none of that I deal with and it's so nice! A year ago today I would have never thought I could do this! Now I don't know why I didn't do it earlier.
Oh btw it doesn't really matter if you go back and get Dr's notes for the old days. If you miss 5 days
in a row you're truant. That's exactly what happened to me. They had 0 days against them when we went to WDW for Christmas. The Principal gave me a note saying it was okay to go and I still got nailed by them! Go to the district....talk to the attendance people. Maybe they will let it slide. It's worth a try. The school is obviously against you. I have nothing nice to say about them.
YOU HAVE FUN ON YOUR TRIP! You can worry about all that when you get home.
The principal said the juvenille office comes in every Thursday to check attendance and computer records. Last year we missed 5 days in a row and nothing happened. She did miss 2 more days during the year for sickness and they said nothing. Most times I didn't even have to write a note. I asked her (principal) before we left an she told us to have fun.
So once you go before a judge then HS is out
?? That kind of sucks. your description of the woman at the county office has me
. Your so right about the sickness, bomb threats and lice
, always having to worry about this stuff is the worst. I'm a major germaphobe
so I'm often freaking out about this stuff. Some kids in Kaylee's school are out with the seasonal flu now
. It's not in her classroom so I'm trying not to worry. I thought about her missing tomorrow too
. Why not add another day to the truancy. I'm not going to let this ruin my vacation.
HOLY COW!!! I have never heard such CRAP in my life! They would NEVER think of doing that here
Well, I REALLY hope you guys can leave the stress behind and have an AWESOME trip Nichole, you certainly deserve it! I hope Thomas has a wonderful birthday and gets LOADS of pixie dust. I hope he likes his cake too! I hope the week goes real slow for you guys!! ENJOY!
Diane
Hi Diane,
Insane isn't it? My friend in NJ kids miss school for two weeks a year just for vacations. they have DVC. Also they are always out sick too. Her DD is in competitive gymnastics so she misses tons more school for that. they don't give her any grief at all
. I will be trying my best t oleave the stress behind and have fun at Disney
. Thanks for the pixie dust and Birthday wishes for Thomas. He is really excited to see Mickey again
) They don't even give exceptions for those children! She tried to pull her child out and they wouldn't allow it. They threatened to pull that kid out of the home. It was so messed up.
I can't wait for the trip report!!!! 
Have FUN!!!!
. It is a gorgeous day out here so hope to enjoy that too. Kaylee is rehearsing for recital right now and Thomas is playing with his Birthday presents. Also the kids have a luau pool party after lunch, so back to craziness at least for this week. I'll have and update soon for you all 
. Thanks for the your posts and well wishes for our trip.
