NYT: Skipping School by David Huck

davidhuck1 — 2023-12-04 01:23:34 UTC

Does your family travel during your time off from school? Have your parents ever let you miss a few days of school, or more, for a trip?

davidhuck1 — 2023-12-04 01:23:56 UTC

What do you think? Is it OK for children to miss school for a family trip? Why or why not?

harrisonyeh111 — 2023-12-04 02:05:13 UTC

No my family never travel during school time even if they did my parents wouldn't let me come since they don't want me to miss anything important from school.

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seitakatsuki112 — 2023-12-04 02:06:09 UTC

Yes, my family sometimes travel during my time off from school. I had a traveled for a week to japan before.

seanhung4080 — 2023-12-04 02:06:17 UTC

I think it depends, because in some school days, some classes are important and some are not, so if there are no important class on the day, missing school for that day is fine. Missing school days near the end of semester is also fine, as teachers are not teaching new stuff.

oliviakao4044 — 2023-12-04 02:06:28 UTC

Yes, but they only do that when I was small, because school work is not that important when I was small but it's important now.

cadenchiang101 — 2023-12-04 02:06:42 UTC

Usually, my parents will choose a holiday to go on a vacation. The only time they let me miss a few days of school is when I'm sick or ill. But for a trip, they'll choose to take one or two days off in addition to the holidays.

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maksimsivopliasov112 — 2023-12-04 02:07:23 UTC

My parents never travelled during my school. My parents let me miss 3 days of school for a long time ago. Also, they let me miss school when I'm ill and cant study normally.

harrisonyeh111 — 2023-12-04 02:07:29 UTC

Well traveling during school time is and isn't correct on one hand you can relax take a break and refocus while on the other you missed out on s much things that you have to spend more effort learning and resulting in the need of more breaks. Which will send you into a loop of having to catch up after every single break

oscarhuang4006 — 2023-12-04 02:07:30 UTC

If we are having a family trip, we will only travel when everyone in our family have time. However, in most of the time, they won't allow me to skip classes to go to trip because they my parents don't want me to miss classes.

edisonliao — 2023-12-04 02:07:46 UTC

My family had once took me to travel during school time when I was grade 5. Since then, I never went to a trip during school time, and my family didn't travel without me either.

seitakatsuki112 — 2023-12-04 02:08:05 UTC

It depends on your work. If you work very hard and gets a high score I your parents will let you go for the trip. well sometimes there are some events from your school so Yea it depends on school's schedule.

oliviakao4044 — 2023-12-04 02:08:06 UTC

Yes, it's of course ok, because children often need sometimes to take a break, to leave school. And also family is more important than school.

applechu4054 — 2023-12-04 02:08:14 UTC

Yes, sometimes they will travel during my time off school if needed. My parents only let me miss a few days for a family trip with the whole family, if it’s just me with only my parents we will go on a trip on vacation or weekends.

oscarhuang4006 — 2023-12-04 02:09:26 UTC

I think it is not OK to miss school and have family trip because this will cause the child to miss the classes, this might impact their homeworks and grades. However, if the trip can't be cancel, then that will be OK.

seanhung4080 — 2023-12-04 02:09:29 UTC

My family usually travel on holidays and not on school days, because if we travel on school days, I might miss some important classes

maksimsivopliasov112 — 2023-12-04 02:09:29 UTC

Well, I think that it is OK if children miss a few days of school, but not the whole week or more for a trip. Also, everyone need to rest from their job and studies and relax their mind.

aylindemirbag — 2023-12-04 02:09:38 UTC

I think family can borrow school times to go to trip, but the condition is that you can experience more and learn more things than go to school.

cadenchiang101 — 2023-12-04 02:10:16 UTC

It depends on what grade and which school your children go to. When your children are in elementary school then it is okay for me to let them miss school for a family trip, but when your children are in high school then missing classes might effect your grades.

applechu4054 — 2023-12-04 02:10:21 UTC

I think it’s ok for children to miss some classes for big family trip, but shouldn’t be missing classes too often. As they grow older, they shouldn’t be missing classes, because there’re more important

arthurwu112 — 2023-12-04 02:10:27 UTC

My parents think studying, and learning are important, so they don't let me miss a few days of school for family travel unless I'm sick.

edisonliao — 2023-12-04 02:10:39 UTC

I assume that it depends on whether students can complete things they should have learned before or after the trip. In my opinion, courses in elementary school or middle school will be fine since it's easy enough to learn it by ourselves.

arthurwu112 — 2023-12-04 02:14:17 UTC

I think it is okay for children to miss school for a family trip, because children need some times to take a rest, to have fun, otherwise, they might get mental problem.