Honestly Manon, this is so...incomprehensible to me I can barely wrap my mind around it.

It appears to me that way too many people have forgotten that the American School calander was designed at a time when children were needed to work in an agricultural society, hence the three months off in the summer. Now we appear to have young people who believe those three months are their God Given Right and not only is that a load of crap but it does nothing to prepare them for the reality of the workplace. I mean if I went into my boss's office and said I wanted June-August off I'd get handed my pink slip and told not to let the door hit me on the way out.

And that the parent...the parent encouraged this sort of irresponsible action?????

Some people need to be taken out back behind the woodshed and beaten with a Clue-By-Four for a good 20 licks.