During the current school year, my school district has had a total of 6 snow days with the limit being 4. As a result, they had to make up for those days (even though we would still have the minimum requirement of 180 school days without making them up) for some funding reasons or some nonsense I'm not fully aware of. Anyway, those days to be made up are Thursday and Friday of this week... days I was supposed to have off for Spring Break. We've had Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and will have today off, but instead of having another 4 days after today off, I go back to school, instead. Now, it's true that they didn't actually cut of 4 days from my Spring Break, but the separation of the two parts makes it feel as though that were the case. Throughout several of my classes, this topic has been the focus of much debate and disappointment. A large number of teachers and students (over half of the students, based on a quick survey from several of my teachers) will not be attending. Part of the problem is that people away on vacation aren't just going to pack up their bags and cut their already-paid-for vacations and another, smaller part of the problem is that people just don't want to go on those days. I do not want to go on those days, but will be among the less than half of my school attending because my mom fails to see the reasoning behind the fact that we will be accomplishing very little during those days (My teachers have already stated their desire to not teach anything new with over half the students and perhaps even themselves not attending.) and so I have to go. Needless to say, I'm ticked off.

I've tried everything to convince my mom to let me stay home and I never try to stay home on school days, but when the teachers are basically approving of doing so and when there will be nothing to learn while over half the school is not attending, I don't see why I can't use an eye infection I currently have (My right eyelid is swollen and currently has some type of ointment from the local pharmacy on it, but it's mostly gone) to my advantage. It's not contagious or severe (I said I was looking for an excuse, no? ) and so my mom won't let me stay home. I typically don't stay home for anything short of an immobolizing illness (I had the flu, once, and that's the only time I remember staying home for being sick)... although much of that is my own choice that just happens to coincide with my mom's own preferences. I'm almost as obstinate as she is when it comes to going to school/work regardless of illnesses. Anyway, the point is that I'm ticked off and I feel as though nearly half of my Spring Break has been ruined because two of the days were taken and two more (out of a total of what was originally to be 10 days of Spring Break) are separated by the gap formed by losing two days. This is one occasion where I would have no problem, myself, staying home from school because there will literally be no learning on those days. According to my ACE Biology teacher (who's been working at the school for about 20 years), even when they have gone over the limit of snow days in the past, they have never taken days off of Spring Break, before. In short, my Spring Break has been cut short and I've spent the past few days being unable to scratch my itchy and infected eye or sleep in a position I'm comfortable with (don't want to get ointment on my bed/pillow). I'll just grin and bear it (They'll be easy days with no homework or paying required, at least.) and there are no solutions to this, so that's not what this thread is about.

That's just my worst (so far) ruined vacation time story and I'm curious to know if anyone else has any of their own.

Fake sick. It's not hard. I do it all the time - I shouldn't, but I do.

By the way, how does telling us help? You either fake sick, attempt to explain to your mother rationally and logically why you shouldn't need to go, or just go. It'll probably be a bludge, so it wouldn't be that bad.

Say that again when your mother is a doctor.

Anyway, she checks for fevers and everything and she knows I rarely get sick, so if I did so on the two days that were just conveniently trying to be skipped by myself, she would know I'm definitely faking it. The fever check alone would do it, but that's just extra. Anyway, there is no avoiding it. I'm going and don't want help in avoiding it as it's just not going to happen. I just want to know what clearly out of a horror film stories the rest of you have to put mine to shame and make me seem like a whiny little brat.

Lol. My mom was the same way. Every time that I knew most of the school wouldn't be in attendance, I would plea to my mom to let me stay home. She would then go on a preaching spree of why I should be getting as much out of school as I could, even though I would tell her how the teachers stated they weren't even really going to be teaching, on account of the absence of so many students. Then she would just complain about how teachers don't do their proper job and encourage students to not show up. Oh well. Parents, what are you going to do?

I don't have any terrible vacation stories, but I remember when I was in 7th grade we missed so many days due to two major snowstorms that we had to go to school an hour early for the rest of the year. That freaking svcked ><

Gotta love the nonsense that time in class = education.

Garbage back in the late 80s when I was in school and even more so now. They should focus more on quality than quantity.

Do what you want. Unless they make YOU put in the time (yes, if I missed more than X days of school I had to make it up in actual hours spent after school in study hall), the school has to be in session to meet senseless federal regulations imposed on them.

I am really surprised that they are taking the days out of your spring break, as you said most people have already paid for vacations at those times.

My school has just been doing days at a time, like planned teacher work days became school days. That seems like a much more efficient way if you ask me. :shrug:

They just add days to the end of the year here. But we live in a climate that expects snow days so we rarely have them. Thought we had 2 this year, so the year gets extended by two days. Keeps everyone semi happy that way, considering those last two days you barely do anything if you're like me (or if you smart, you do something idk what though I never did it).

Meh, it could've been worse. I'm not trying to be on a high horse here, but I fail to see how going to school for seven hours of not learning anything is exactly "ruining" your vacation. Your mom is probably just teaching you responsibility when it is required for stupid or legitimate reasons. I can't skip out on work just because there won't be any customers that day due to a thunderstorm (then again, I have the incentive of being paid for my time there, but that's besides the point). I would've gone to school if I were in the same situation. It's just two days out of nine.

No ruined vacations here. I haven't gone on vacation in ten years and all of my days off from work have been pleasantly uneventful. The worst is when you're ready to enjoy the day off that is currently happening and you get called into work, since you're already in that state of mind, but if I know a few days early? Oh well.