Originally Posted by questions
The school district has a policy, you can only miss 18 max. I think he's already at 18. Meanwhile, I'm supposed to be in VA next week and had talked about taking him, then backed off when he missed 5 days of school in two weeks due to the flu and a stomach bug. Maybe he'll make the trip after all...

Here if the kids are going to be gone five or more days in a row you can arrange independent study. They get the work packet from the teacher and turn it in when they return. It doesn't count as an absence.

Cathy