December Vacation To India

Which grade is she in? The grade matters.

How many school days will she be missing? 15? People usually take off 5 school days. Up to 10 is doable. More than that is too much work for the teacher and for the child also.

Are they and you confident she will get a spot in the same school? If the school is impacted (over-enrolled) and has a waiting-list, they are required to give the spot to waiting-list students after you unregsiter.

When I was in this position, I inquired with the 4th grade teacher. She was very cooperative and said they learn a lot from vacations. We only took 5 days off for the older child, and 6 days for the younger (had jet-lag after return).

 

Very risky for overloaded schools. Even if the school admin themselves don't call up parents from the wait-list, if a waiting-list parent himself asks the school about it, they have to disclose that they have a spot available due to student who was truant for more than 10 days consecutive.

I would double-check this. Attendance records do not carry over from year to year. And definitely do not carry over into the high school years which is a completely different school district. From the little that I remember, up to 10 days of vacation is fine till 5th grade, and can add few days with doctor's note if kid falls sick during other months. In 6th and upward, they have too much going on in school and missing more than 4-5 consecutive days is stressful for kid to catch-up.

This usually works out good. Can get the more reasonable fare, not much happening in school before Christmas break. For example, this year, a family can technically leave on Friday Dec 6th after school and return from India by Saturday Jan 4th, rest for a day, back to school on Monday 6th.

 

7 weeks is too long for a vacation during the school year, IMO, even for first grade and even if it can be worked out with the school. Google "summer learning loss."