The question about whether to take kids out of school so they can travel always evokes a firestorm of discussion in the family travel blogsphere. Parents of younger children often feel the kids learn more while traveling than they do in the classroom. For some parents, family travel is such a high priority that they embrace homeschooling or even unschooling so the family can travel year-round. Still others plan a year off to travel the world and figure their kids can pick up where they left off when they get back. Alternatively, for many of us more traditional traveling families with teens and tweens, family travel options often get squeezed by the demands of school, sports, sleep away camps and the pull of teenage friends at home. Our family has a standing rule [...]
