Where I grew up in Osceola county between Marion and Evart you had to do extra home work ahead of time to get permission to miss school. Later in the 1970's they finally decided that they might just as well close the schools for the first 3days and the factory's did also.
This is my 54th season. still have my second tag although I have seen a couple bucks since the first day. No rush have Muzzle loader season coming up Dec 5th (?) till the 21st.

Al