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05-12-2008, 08:27 PM
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#31 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Texas -> Cornell
Posts: 208
| I skip legally. I didn't before around late march, but recently, I've scheduled tons of arbitrary things like dr's appointments, basic checkups, but my doctors <3 me so they'll just say I was under their medical care the whole day so I don't have to come back the following day.
If I don't feel good enough/can't make it to an appointment that day, I'd just get my mom to write me a note for the period I'm off.
Basically I don't ever have unexcused absences, they're all excused, but not all necessary.
AP testing week, we're off 3 out of 4 periods if you take it in the morning. Even if we finished at 12, I'd go home. If it was a B-day and I had 7th off, I wouldn't come back.
Friday, I went to 7th and had the Fitnessgram but I had a headache and since I was already counted present I went home.
Senioritis. You'll understand when you get to that point. It's not like we do anything in class anymore. I have 4 APs, all my exams are done. My other 2 periods are Yearbook and Yearbook Editor Period. The Yearbook is out. I have nothing left to do. | 
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05-12-2008, 09:03 PM
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#32 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 553
| I've never just not gone to a class. I have hidden in the nurse's office or gone home "sick" before a paper was due, though.
But just walking out of the school? That's no fun. | 
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05-12-2008, 10:47 PM
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#33 | | Member
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: A place where rich hobos, with bodacious hips, run rampant...
Posts: 525
| Just walking out of school can be quite fun  | |
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05-12-2008, 10:48 PM
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#34 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: new joisy
Posts: 3,485
| haha skipping class in college doesn't count--it's hardly ever punishable.
as for "cutting" high school classes, maybe once every two weeks or so
legally, idk...like staying home sick to do work? eh maybe like once or twice a year. | |
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05-13-2008, 12:10 AM
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#35 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Dallas
Posts: 259
| I'm a goody goody, I've never ever skipped without permission. | |
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05-13-2008, 01:44 AM
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#36 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Michigan State!!
Posts: 1,396
| me too. Never skipped w/o permission. Wait, on the 2nd to last day of school this year though, I did come into class 15 minutes late unexcused. *gasp* I know I am the biggest daredevil ever!!!
Otherwise I always get my absences excused. Or come up with something convincing to my parents, "oh, i have to go to my internship presentations" aka miss school to go to a free luncheon. Free food is the best | |
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05-14-2008, 11:00 AM
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#37 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Long Beach --->Sonoma State '12
Posts: 2,133
| I skipped today...I just NEEDED a day off. But I'm planning on not missing anymore until the end of the school year (15 school days!). | |
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05-14-2008, 11:09 AM
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#38 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Texas -> Cornell
Posts: 208
| Tsk tsk tsk. I get to school at 10:15 on A days and leave at 3:45. B days I get to school at 8:45, leave at 1:34. Not much happens if I skip a whole day,
but so far I have:
1.5 points for absences (each period (unexcused or parent note) gone counts as .25 points)
1 tardy.
College visits (up to 2 school days missed), doctor visits, etc. don't count towards absence points.
To get all 4 exemptions (can't exempt any final twice in a year) you have to have under 3.00 total, and under 8 tardies
Admittedly, I'm not in 2nd period right now. I don't feel too great, but I can't get a doctor's note right now. That's where my parent note/unexcused absences come from. I just feel crappy and decide to start school when I recover sufficiently. I never miss APs or whatever, important ones, but I just don't like being in BS classes, IE Yearbook since it's DONE. We do nothing in that class. | |
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05-14-2008, 02:31 PM
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#39 | | New Member
Join Date: May 2008
Posts: 8
| I've never skipped either, unless it counts when your mom checks you out so you can get highlights? | |
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05-14-2008, 06:34 PM
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#40 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Nowhere USA
Posts: 178
| Never ever ever. If I did my mom would know before I was half way to the parking lot . | |
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05-14-2008, 06:52 PM
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#41 | | Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 634
| If I miss more than 10 days a semester due to absence, excused or not, I also fail all my classes  I haven't skipped a day this year. Preplanned trips have already eaten up some of those days, and I could easily get sick and have to stay home. I never really 'skipped' per se though, I just called in sick, and even doing that made me feel super guilty. It's just the way I've been raised, skipping school is unheard of ^.^ | |
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05-14-2008, 07:20 PM
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#42 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 194
| haha you guys are talking about two different types of skipping. There is the classic skipping which is when ur reportedly in school but dont go to class then the new school skipping which is never going to school or just leaving with an excuse, for the real ba's the excuse isnt legit (forged note or something) | |
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05-14-2008, 08:05 PM
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#43 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: California
Posts: 107
| I've missed tons of classes due to band (tour, festivals, etc.). As for actually skipping class just 'cause I felt like it? Only like once or twice. I don't make a habit out of it. | |
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05-22-2008, 06:40 PM
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#44 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 15
| Ive missed 160+ plus periods in a 360 period semester the last time i checked and that was about three weeks ago and I had a majority of AP Classes, if you can get your stuff done by yourself I dont see a problem with it. | |
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05-22-2008, 06:41 PM
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#45 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,557
| Never, unless my teacher tells me to. | |
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