Originally Posted by
Tracker II
Do you, or would you, let your child skip a day of school to go deer hunting?
My teenage boy wants to go but do to travel time requirements, I would have to let him skip school for one day during the first firearms season and one or two days during the second season. He gets decent grades, having a 3.5 GPA for the first year and a half of high school but several of his A's have been the just barely type and my wife and I are concerned that taking time off would have a negative impact. I should also note that he is on the block schedule where everything is compressed into half the time. This means that every day missed is the equivalent of two days missed for the subjects he is taking at that time.
In addition to the grade thing, I don't want to send the message that he should knock off school (or in later years, work) if there is something that he would rather be doing - even though hunting is a great life experience.
So what would you all do? I appreciate your thoughts on the matter.
Without question! We recently went to Disney for a week and all three of my boys missed a full week of school. My wife nor all their teachers seemed to think it was a big deal. Well, our annual trip to Tennessee for deer and hogs fell the next week and I held them out on that Friday because we always hunt a long weekend. They all do well and it is usually held over their heads as an incentive if they do well in school. I have no problem with it as long as they continue to excel and make up what they missed.