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On 27 Feb 2003 09:17:34 GMT, cje@tavi.co.uk (Tina Eager) wrote:

>What I find interesting about this debate is that nobody 
>here seems to be concerned with the disruption caused 
>to the learning of other people when the child concerned 
>returns to school.
>
Of course, this depends on whether or not the child does
end up disrupting the class when s/he returns to school.

In the case of a child who is taken out for the parent's 
convenience (vacation), it will depend entirely on whether
or not the child is asked to continue doing schoolwork 
while they are gone.  I had a student who left for 3 weeks
because her parents had to get their papers in order in
Mexico.  (They certainly could not leave her home while
they did this).  She returned with every bit of her assignments
done and done reasonably well though I suspect that she
would have done a bit better had she been in class where
she had the concepts presented by the teacher instead of
by her uncle.   I admit that most students won't do this, but
this is an example of where there was no disruption and in
fact where the student provided a very good example of
responsibility for her own learning to others in that class.

>Imagine a child has been off school for 2 weeks, enjoying 
>an interesting and educational time dossing around on 
>some beach developing skin cancer and so on. 
>
Do you think travel cannot be educational for children?  Why
do you assume that the family is simply lounging on the beach?

After all, teachers are allowed to count their travel as part of
their education fairly often when we travel during the summer
as long as we can relate it to our own educational goals.

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Dorothy

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