Hi guys,
Wow, cruising right along to 2000...us West Coasters can keep it going at night, and the East Coasters are posting, posting, posting in the morning (I had pages and pages to go through since last night!).
Gail--I am an educator, and I agree with everyone about pulling your daughter out. Just make sure you understand the "essentials" that are going on in her classroom at the time, and reinforce. It is much trickier in High School, where credits and graduation can be jeopardized, even if what the students have missed is WORTHLESS!
One of my good friends, who is an awesome high school science teacher, pulled her two junior high students out of school for the ENTIRE YEAR this year while she and her husband take leaves to travel around the world with the kids. She got plenty of flak from her kids' teachers, but come on...travel around the world or sit in 7th grade????? The sad part is that she knew she had to do it NOW, before high school. In high school, world travel doesn't count toward graduation requirements.
I'll be back tonight...
Christy
(OOPS--I got tagged as Lisa, but it's actually Christy

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