[roaminggnome]

When I have to take my kids out of school for a family vacation...I just write a letter to the office and tell them my kids will be out of school from X-day to X-day and I would like their home work for those days. I keep it short and sweet. I don't give anymore information on where we are going or what we will be doing. Our school officials don't give people to much flack about being gone during the school year because we live in a tourist town. I can't really take time off from April to the end of September. So we go when we want too.