Senior skip day argument. I would love to hear some other opinions.

My husband and I have 3 high school aged boys together. The oldest is 17 and is a senior in high school.Senior skip day, for those of you who don't know, is a day where all of the seniors skip school and go out to do something fun. Most kids go to the lake or things like that. It is a known thing and teachers won't be handing out much work that day. They expect it.My son wants to skip school to hang out with his friends. My husband is completely against this. He is probably strict compared to a lot of the parents I see in this sub, but he has a great relationship with the boys and they have a lot of respect for him. The oldest has always been the one to give my husband a bit of a harder time, but he is finally starting to understand why his father has been so hard on him. If we tell him no, he'll obviously complain about it, but we are both confident that he wouldn't go behind our backs. He's respectful of our rules.I kind of want to just want to allow him to do it. I feel like he has earned this. He is going to be attending college this fall on an athletic scholarship. He received a very respectable score on the SATs and has worked very hard for four years of high school. I feel like he deserves a bit of a reward.My husband seems to think that our son can enjoy time with his friends in the summer, but our son will probably be spending a lot of his time in the summer training. When not training, he'll be working a summer job. It's not like he will have boatloads of time. My husband has always been very against letting the kids miss any school or any practice. One of our kids (middle son) has a medical condition and my husband didn't go easy on him with school or practice either. He was always there. Even if he couldn't participate on that particular day, he was at practice watching and learning. He's a great father, but he has some things he is particularly strict about. They have had to miss out on some things because of their fathers standards and I don't want to add another thing to that list. I don't think it will be a big deal in the grand scheme of things if we make him go, but I kind of want him to have this.The downside is that we would probably have to let our other boys (high school sophomore and freshman at the moment) skip when they are seniors as well.Should I try to convince my husband to let him skip or do you think my husband is right to make him go? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2o8WFTT