Advice needed

[PA BEN]

Each year when I came over to eastern wash. I would take my daughter out of school for a week. Work it out with their teachers, get home work to do and when she got back to school she would do a paper on our daddy daughter hunt. 

[pianoman9701]

Tell her hes taking time off and that's the way it is.

Either you're unmarried or soon will be.

[lonedave]

Call it a "parent - student" conference!

[h20hunter]

It's a great opportunity for your son to prove he's up to it.

Put most of the responsibility on him:   Get good/excellent grades (for your son, whatever that means) and we can take some days off.    Ask him straight:  How important is it to you?   If it's truly important, he'll do the pre-work and be in great shape to go.

If not, he'll learn a valuable life lesson.

That's what we did.  then the outcome is up to them.   Worked great for us.

Best of luck.

Sums it up nicely.

[Atroxus]

Can always get the teachers to give you his work for the days he will be gone, then each night after the hunt, he and you can work on it. Cant think of a better addition to a great bonding experience.

 

  Just cause he misses school doesn't mean he has to miss the school work.

[Mossbak]

My Dad used to take me out of school but I'd get homework to do from most of the teachers.
I had one teacher that wouldn't give me any and would always say that  "you will learn more in the woods with your dad than you could ever learn in this classroom". 

[Buzz2401]

I took a full week from 3rd grade all the way through 4 years of college. You might have 65 good years of hunting total.  how many days and weeks of school and work will you have over that time period.  Hunting comes first IMO.  I'm a college grad and believe school is way overrated but that's a hard one to tell mom. Just give her the old "what if I died tomorrow"  line.

[motg9_6]

have her watch this video and then ask her whats more important???

[deltaops]

Can always get the teachers to give you his work for the days he will be gone, then each night after the hunt, he and you can work on it. Cant think of a better addition to a great bonding experience.

 

My ex and me are the same when it comes to our sons.  School first then the extras. Before my son even went through hunters ed, we had a lengthy talk about how important school is and to keep up with the homework. Explained to him that if his grades were not par then he will not hunt. He knows this and we discuss it every time he mentions going hunting.

Now with that being said, he has done his part and continues to do his part.

Last year was the first hunt he went on, I had discussed this months prior with his mom and we both agreed that if he keeps his grades up he can go hunting and be gone during the youth hunt. I wrote a letter to the school and received permission from the school. A few days prior to leaving ofr the hunt, I had received all the homework he would have while we were gone. Every night after the hunt he would do a little bit of homework, completing all of it before we arrived home.

He has proven to himself, his school and us parents that he is capable of doing this with no issues so I see this year as not an issue.

I would talk to mom in a adult manner and both come to agreements a head of time. If the son is dedicated, he will keep good grades and prove to mom, dad, and his school that he is capable of missing school without effecting his performance.

I hope all works out for you and him. 

[rainshadow1]

HOMESCHOOL!!!!!!!

School is definitely Job #1 at this stage of life, I am their teacher.... and we go when we want!!

(Sorry, doesn't help you. I just kinda enjoy it!)

[Hoythunter]

Without a doubt he'll learn more in 3 days being in the woods with his dad then he would sitting behind a desk.  Yes, school is important but in this case a you need to draw a hard line.

[wariner87]

My father once told me " sometimes it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission"   as land as we all know a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do!

[Alchase]

I took my son out of school for a week of deer season every year starting at age eight.
We had a rule, maintain your grades you earn privileges. Let your grades fall below a "C" you loose those privileges, and can't play sports or go hunting!
He graduated with a accumulative 4.05 GPA

In his 6th grade year I picked him up at school and went to all his teachers to let them know he would be out for a week and he would need all his assignments so he could complete them in deer camp.
I was in his Social Studies classroom when I noticed a famous picture of Geronimo with three other warriors at the meeting with General Cooke, and the caption under the picture says:
 "fighting terrorism since 1492"
The teacher asked "where he was going?"
I replied: "he is going to his family's annual Deer camp".
She then asked: "do you mean hunting?" in a totally condescending and un-approving tone.
I replied: "yes", and before I finished saying it, she says matter of factually: "I do no appro....I do not think the state allows hunting as an acceptable excuse ....."
I interrupted her and pointed to the picture of Geronimo and asked:"did you know Geronimo admitted to murdering over 500 Mexican men woman and children, and his band of Bedonkohe and Chiricahua warriors almost single handily wiped out the Yaqui nation, and the ones they let live they kept as slaves? And did you know in the massacre near Silver-City, he personally tied one of the young girls to a cactus, cut her stomach open and dragged her intestines hundreds of feet away while still attached. Then he hung the other young girl by a meet hook through the back of her head, alive?
BTW, I was not asking for your opinion or your approval,  my son will pick up his assignments Friday after class please have them ready".
You should have seen the look on her face! Somewhere between "how dare you talk to me" and "I have been glorifying a mass murderer and I feel stupid" she just stared at me with her mouth open.
I turned and left.
Friday she had the assignments ready to go.

[turkeyfeather]

If your son got the chicken pox he would be out of school for a few days and it would be excused. Elk fever is a much more serious condition. 

[Moose Master]

hunting is more than showing up on Saturday and trying to kill something and then leaving on Sunday.  School and life are the same way.  Set goals, work hard, and hunt hard.   Also remind your wife that moments not taken are lost.  I,m a father of 3 sons and urge you to take him for the season.