What do you do when vaca. fall at different times?

[Zoemakes5]

My sons will be in two different schools for awhile starting next year. And, when DD starts, there will be a couple of years when I have three of them in three different schools (elem, middle and high). One of my biggest frustrations is that other than the "biggies" (winter/x-mas and spring break) there is no time off that coincides. The in-service days are different, the conference schedules are weeks apart...well you get the idea.
What do you do?
Only go during spring break or x-mas? Take one child out of school? What is your solution?
I'm fairly inclined that if we don't go during spring break (which, this year is the week before easter!) we'll probably take my younger son out for a couple of days, as I think it would be easier on him than my older son who will be middle school.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Uggh, that sounds like a hard choice but your own solution seems to make perfect sense to me.

I hope you have fun whenever you go

 

[Mom to Jordan]

I would take out which ever child will have the easist time catching up and plan around that. School is important but family is more important.

 

[mamacatnv]

I have a High Schooler and a 2nd grader who is on a multi track year round schedule High schooler plays football which is almost a year round sport!

We take the younger one out a couple of times a year for a few days to a week depending on what we are doing.

High schooler has block scheduling and takes AP/Honors classes plus football in the summer. Too hard for him to miss much.

We took our oldest out of school for trips until he reached High school and now we are stuck with the traditional breaks. It was great, DL in November or February........etc.....

For our upcoming Dec/January trip, the kids will both miss 2 days, but we figure those are the first 2 days back from the break and will not be as crucial as other times could be. We did this so we could skip the New Years Eve chaos that we dealt with last year.


I agree that school is important and so is family time.

 

[Alex2kMommy]

I would take out which ever child will have the easist time catching up and plan around that. School is important but family is more important.

I agree. I would also let the teacher of the child missing school know as far in advance as possible, so the child could perhaps work ahead during their break time in preparation of the trip. (I have a kindergartener and 2yo, so really not sure if that would work, but I'd try.)

 

[DVCLiz]

Aaarrrggghhhhh, one of my least favorite problems. I had two daughters in different schools for four years. They were both private schools, so they could schedule without having to answer to the school board, and they STILL couldn't get it together. I think it was a competition - "Oh, so your spring break is xxx? Well, then, we'll make ours the week AFTER xxx." It was so frustrating.

Sometimes I took the younger one out of school for a week, but once she got into middle school we really had to look at times they could both go. In our family, older DD also stayed with her dad and stepmom when she just couldn't miss school and younger DD had a vacation time. I know that's not a choice most families have, though!!! (Thankfully.)

Now DD17 is leaving for college, and in looking at the schedule I see that both of them have EXACTLY the same schedule all year long. So now I have to wait and see if college activities and new friends are more of a lure for DD17, or if she will want to vacation with DD12 and me!!!