I know this is a "personal preference" question but just wanted to see others thoughts.
Thinking about doing a very short and quick trip and would attend one of the first parties. We would leave Thursday afternoon after the kids got out of school. Attend a Friday party and come back home Sunday. (The kids would miss a day a school.)
In November, we are going the same thing a few days before Thanksgiving break, so the kids would miss 2 days of school then.
My concern and question I guess is about the kids missing 3 days of school just for Disney (would you just go for it?). I'm not really worried about my youngest as he is in kindergarten, but my oldest is in 6th grade.
From my personal experience, since I don't have children, I know that the first time I went with my grandparents I was in preschool and probably missed around 4 or 5 days? I'm not entirely sure, but I know I did miss some but it was right at the end of the school year basically.
Then when I was in high school, my high school band would go every other year and pretty much just take out all of the kids that were going on the trip from school for 2-4 days, we'd fly out on like a Thursday/Friday and come back either a Monday/Tuesday. The school also has a rule that if you get back to the school past midnight, on the day you're coming back, then you can go to school the next day late. Of course all of the teachers knew and everything and some would give work, but some wouldn't. There was literally one year I went that my Spanish teacher gave us packets to do and when we got back, they hadn't even reached that part yet.
Also, since there are 4 of us, and all of us were in the band, my family went every year, so by the time the youngest was doing her Disney trips, I, and my other 2 siblings, were in college and still missing days just to go to Disney lol. But of course that was a personal preference and I spoke with my professors beforehand about what I would miss, or if I knew that I wouldn't be missing much, just using up one of my allotments for missed days. My sister had actually asked to move up a test so she could go. This year my brother, who will be a senior in college, is missing 7 days and is alright with that.
And I know this isn't being pulled out of school for Disney related, but my high school would also do a trip to Europe every other year and the 11th and 12th graders that were going on the trip would miss around 2 full weeks of school in the fall I believe.
