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Here here! As I have posted before, let kids be kids. If little Jane or Johnny misses one day of school nothing bad will happen to them. Furthermore, if it was one day of a public or a liberal private school the child is much better off.

If little Jane or Johnny misses one day of school nothing bad will happen to them.

This may amuse you:

In a restaurant near Wrigley Field there is this sign: "Any employee wishing to miss work because of death or serious illness please notify the office by 11 a.m. on the day of the game." In that spirit, the teachers of Victoria and Jon Will are hereby notified that, because of an annual April emergency, Victoria and Jon must be in Baltimore Monday afternoon. But Geoffrey Will will be in school, drawn by love of learning (that's a joke, son) and baseball practise. - George F. Will, "An Exacting and Elevating School," 2 April 1989.

But I am also compelled to wonder: Had the little 'uns been kept out of school to attend the premiere of, say, Stuart Little, or Cats and Dogs, would there have been even a sixteenth of the brouhaha being kicked up by young Mr. Potter's film premiere?

(All things considered, I am also somewhat surprised that similar brouhahas are not aroused for Opening Day games of the Anaheim Angels, given that there was once a player - Gary Gaetti, since retired - who surveyed the weird fortunes of the team, usually ill fortunes afield, and became convinced there were witches haunting the ballpark.)

The day of school their missing is not the point. The point is WHY their missing the day and what the parents are teaching the kids by taking them out and lying to the teacher about why their taking them out.