Tigger is an honor student also and she likes school but she likes DW better. We made arrangements to bring her school work with her last year and she did it in the RV a little each day. We understood it was going to be an "unexcused absence" but made the choice anyway with overwhelming approval from the school and teachers. It seemes that the chance for our kids to experience "real world" life and activities place high on the more desired list of reasons for missing school. I told them up front why we were going and that Tigger would get the chance to inneract with people from all over the country and even different parts of the world and amazingly they agreed that it was a lesson that couldn't be learned in school. Think about it and then make your choice. Tiggers's school work didn't suffer at all as a result of her missing school, in fact she was way ahead when she came back because the teachers assigned a lot of extra work for her to take because they weren't sure what all she would miss. The hard part for her was having to sit the the lessons a 2nd time after she had already done them. She did get some extra credit for doing the same work twice from a couple of teachers.
