WOW, has my elementary school angered me !! DS 10, lazy, does not like to do homework AT ALL !! Is in special ed with an IEP, but IQ tests high at 140's, not bored, but LAZY LAZY. He truley believes all school work should only be done in school and will only do homework when forced and screamed at. Now he is moving into 6th, but still can not do multiplication tables over #9 as he will not pratice. A recent F in math, but passing and satisfactory from Math special ed teacher. I am fighting with the distict to give a summer program to him so he does not fall behind and get lost for 6th grade. Their comment , " teachers indicate your son does not fall behind avfter a vacation break, so he does not need a summer program". SO, when we go on our trip 5/20 - 5/26, they will not have the ability to SAY ANYTHING about it !!!! It is true, he will not miss anything as he will never study and will get a passing grade, except in Math of course. I do bring homework with me and even take pictures of them studying in the hotel rooms, and have every year. We make a special folder of each teacher of hte work them have done in Flordia, with those pictures and present htme to hte teachers, along wit a small gift from Disney.
Never an expensive one, but something a teacher would find useful. Ande don't think it is a bribe, we also bring back gifts for our cat sitters, and my co-workers. We have taken them out of school each of the past three years either in the very end of September or the end of January. This is the first year we are going in May.
, but I am sure Ds and DD (12) , will not miss anything earth shattering that they will not be able to make up when we come home, or do while we are gone. So, I say
TAKE THEM OUT OF SCHOOL AND HAVE FUN !!!!