Skip class...ever???

[pyrate83]

Did you ever skip class in High School or in college. I just skipped my one class today because I didn't feel like going and besides...it's statistics.

Story: When I was in HS I tried to sneak out to luch with some friends and a senior that had a off campus lunch pass. Got a few steps out the side door when a cop pulled up. He took us back inside to see the Asst. principle and the principle. I told them I wasn't sneaking out but was really trying to go to my car and get my lunch. Well they believed me and told me to go out and get it. So I did. Then the real lies started when I called my Dad and told him what had happened and that they were going to give me Saturday school for something I really wasn't trying to do. He calls the principle and tries to talk him out of it but he wouldn't budge. Long story short, if my parents had found out that I was really trying to sneak out to lunch I would have lost my car so I lied, served Saturday school and learned a very valuable lesson.

[lordsmurf]

When did I not skip class ?

Some of those college professors would just read out of the book. I can read too. I did it later. Waste of time to sit in class.

High school was mostly worthless too. I did not care then if X=Y=W*8/7897 and I still don't now.

[pyrate83]

When did I not skip class ?

I like that answer.

[Conquest10]

Principal. Remember, he is your pal.

I never skipped class in HS. I mean really, what is there to do? A lot of places here don't allow students in without parents before like 1 o'clock.

College is different, not too many but I do occasionally when I got things to do.

[pacmania_2001]

I only skipped a full day of school once and that was in my final year. I'd found out what course I wanted to do at university and what grades I needed which I easily had so I could afford to slack off. We ended up going down the coast, saw a movie and went to a beach, a pretty good day instead of school.

In Australia you have to have lunch at school but when my mates and I got our licences in our final year this didn't really appeal to us so we'd always sneak out to go to Cold Rock or McDonalds for some grub. It was quite funny walking into class with a McDonalds thickshake and the teacher just death staring you.

One time our strategy backfired on us though. We skipped out of English early (it was the class before lunch) and went to get Maccas. Anyway, we're just leaving and my friends car breaks down. This is just great so we decide that if we're going to get back in time we'd catch a taxi back to school. As we're waiting for the taxi my nose just starts pouring blood out of nowhere so I'm jamming serviettes up it trying to get it to stop and I've decided I can't wait around for a taxi so I call my Mum on her mobile to get her to pick me up.

When she arrives I tell her that I was at school when it happened and my friend was driving me home when his car broke home. She accepts the story thanks to my great bullshitting ability and takes me home. Great! I'm off scot free I think. My other mates at that point were just going to skip the rest of the day.

That's where the plot came unfoiled. One of my friends had just broken up with his girlfriend of two years and she was quite bitchy about the matter. Later in the day when we didn't show up to classes and to get revenge she spilled the beans to the Assistant Principal/Teacher for that subject about our Maccas runs. All this time I'm at home thinking I've commited the perfect crime and the phone rings. Here's what the conversation went like:

Me: Hello?
Assistant Principal (AP): Hi Matt, I think we need to have a chat about where you are.
Me: Yeh, I had to go home because my nose was bleeding really badly and I didn't have time to go to sick bay.
AP: Really? Because I have Stacey here who says you, Steven and Dixon went to Maccas and then skipped the rest of the day.
Me: Ah SHIT.

[pyrate83]

Ah shit is right.

[northcat_8]

Hell I try to skip class everyday, but the kids always come and find me

[pyrate83]

Hell I try to skip class everyday, but the kids always come and find me

[pacmania_2001]

Ah shit is right.

Didn't turn out too bad in the end. I was pretty well liked by the staff the assistant principal took a school trip to the snow fields for skiing every year so I knew him from that and vice versa.

In the end I think we did a thirty minute after school detention for the incident which still put us ahead seeing we missed about 3 hours of school the day we wagged.

Hell I try to skip class everyday, but the kids always come and find me

Bastards. It's almost like they expect you to teach them something.

[Cobra]

I try not to skip anything, because if I do then I will be crucified in the lab due to lack of knowledge.

[pacmania_2001]

Pftt... Uni, the only time I show up for class is test days and when I've got to hand in assignments.

[eag182]

I skipped for lunch (HS) yesterday at mcdonalds . I give myself the right to do so with a 3.9 gpa

[pyrate83]

I skipped for lunch (HS) yesterday at mcdonalds . I give myself the right to do so with a 3.9 gpa

I had a 3.7 GPA in HS. What grade you in?

[HatchetMan]

I only ditched a couple times a quarter in HS. Unfortunately, I skipped every chance I got in college. Some of it I feel bad about, because I made the Dean's List 4 times but could have easily made it each and every time, that might have looked good on a resume, graduating with honors or something like that.

[Ma_Jie]

I feel sorry for you guys. In HS and even in elementary, it was no big deal for us to leave school to go eat lunch. More than 50% of my HS career, I ate somewhere other than the cafeteria.

And skipping...shit. I skipped like a champ, esp. in my final year. I had this accounting course, which I just took to fill out my schedule, since I had enough credits and marks to get into university, so I would skip it everday. And even when the teacher would come to the caf and say, "You coming to class?" I'd be like Nope and keep playing cards w/ my buddies.

In university, I skip a lot this year b/c me and my friend record the lectures. So we switch off weeks: she'll skip 1, I'll tape it; I'll skip next week, and she'll record it. And my marks are very solid, high enough for Grad School admission, so as long as the mark is high, I can keep skipping.

Why go to class when you could be a) drinking; b) sleeping; or c) playing in a 3-table Texas Hold Em tournament. ^_^

- MJ

[Bodyslide]

I skipped most of my last quarter in High School. GPA was around a 3.7 before it fell to a 3.4. No biggie.

[sacajaweeda]

It's easier to keep track of the times I showed up to class in HS.

[Guest]

I only ditched a couple times a quarter in HS. Unfortunately, I skipped every chance I got in college. Some of it I feel bad about, because I made the Dean's List 4 times but could have easily made it each and every time, that might have looked good on a resume, graduating with honors or something like that.

**** it.Youre a PW now.

[gummyAvenger]

I skipped one of my classes my 2nd or 3rd week in college. My instructor went to the registrar, found my parents' home phone number and called my mom to see if everything was alright. I don't think I skipped (very many) classes after that.

[jimmalenko]

In HS we were meant to stay on-campus between the hours of 9 and 3:30, but with spare periods a feature of our educational system, there were plenty of opportunities to walk down to the local chicken shop for a chips n gravy or whatever you wanted to down down the street. Naturally if you had a spare last, you'd just piss off early (especially when you ahd your licence), but if you had a spare first, you'd still have to rock up at 9 because absentees were taken, even if you had a spare for that period (Yr 12's had a common room at their disposal).

So anyway, you always had your spare with the same people, and throughout the year me and a mate became the bus boys for everyone else. There'd normally be roughly 10 other people who'd want wings, chicken packs, chips etc etc so we'd do them a deal - tipping was expected in e xchange for us going down to get all the stuff. All was fine until our last week of classess, ever. We finish classes in early october, then you get a couple of weeks study break then headlong into exams, with almost all subjects having at least one exam.

So it's the Monday of the last week of classes, and we're finishing up on the Wednesday, when we decided to do a run to the shop. Aremed with about $30 in coin, we wander down to the chicken shop, place the order, and bag everything for the 500m walk back to school. We're about halfway back when a car comes along the service road, then pulls into a driveway and blocks us from walking across it. We look inside and it turns out to be the Year 11 co-ordinator, who is well known for being an utter bitch. ohhhhhhhhhh Faaaaaaaaark we both think (and say).

She gets out, and gives us a massive spiel about duty of care and how the school is responsible for us and that we all deserve detention. My mate didn't really appreciate this on his 3rd-last day of classes, and told her so. Next she tries to land a Saturday detention on us, to which my mate reasoned "...well, we'll be out of here on Wednesday, and I'm down the beach until exams, ...". I swear I saw steam coming from the eyes and ears of the coordinator. She asked me if I had anything to add to that, and I sorta put my foot in it by saying "... the food is getting cold. Can we sort this out at recess ?"

[Devanshu]

Senior year I skipped lunch and went out w/ my friends. There was this parking lot right by the cafeteria called the senior parking lot. Every 6 weeks there was a random draw of names from the roster and you got a pass for 6 weeks. We always knew SOMEONE that would let us use it.

Anway, in college, I try not to skip. Especailly labs...if you miss one, youre pretty much screwed on that topic. I started skipping philosophy a lot (not a big fan) this semester...

[yoda313]

Hello,

Well here's a shocker -

NOPE NEVER SKIPPED :P :P :P :P

Kevin

[Roundabout]

I never skipped class until I got to HS and then I found how easy it was.

In the 70's, schools were apt to experiment with different styles of education, and we had such an experiment at our HS, called VMS (Variable Modular Scheduling). What it essentially meant was you'd have different classes and different classrooms and teachers every school day.

For example, they gave us a schedule with "A" days thru "F" days. It started out fine, with A day being Monday, B day was Tuesday, etc. The problem was, the following Monday was the F day, then Tuesday was A day, then Wednesday was B day, and so on. Instead of making only 5 letter days, A thru E, they had added the F day, causing the schedule to rotate every week for maximum confusion. On top of that, you might have, for example, Science on A, D, and F day, but not on B, C, or E day. The days you do have Science, you'd have it for only 45 minutes on A day, then with a different teacher on D day, and in a different classroom on F day.

You'd have sometimes an hour between classes or more, with nothing to do at all. However, the campus was "open", meaning you could come and go as you pleased without permission.

Once I discovered their system was only keyed to Home Room attendance records, I'd show up for HR and then take off the rest of the day. What's interesting, I got decent grades in a number of classes that they only required your attendance, no tests. I never even showed up for these classes but got an A or B in them! The teachers never thought to take roll call, they just gave the same marks to everyone, regardless.

One good example was PE (Phys ED). I never went the entire first part of the year. I was getting B's in the class, but made the mistake of finally showing up one time. The coach noticed I wasn't dressed out and yelled at me to do so, but it was very cold that day and I didn't feel like it.

When he said he'd fail me if I didn't, I laughed at him and told him he'd been passing me for months when I didn't even show up, he got really angry. He was afraid I'd turn him in for not checking up on students. I walked away and he told me he'd suspend me if I did. I said "Go ahead, it'll just give me an excuse to stay home".

He turned me in, I was suspended and had to go the the superintendent to get reinstated. I didn't even care, but the super practically begged me to go back to class, and my dad really didn't care, so I agreed to go back.

I continued to skip the PE class and got F's after that, the coach was making sure at that point, because he was mad.

Had I not shown up at all, I would have passed PE with no problem. My mistake for doing so.

In all, I was absent more than I was there, esp. in 10th and 11th grade. I had a car, so I'd go to the mall and hang out, or to a fast food joint and eat. Sometimes sit in the car and listen to my 8-Tracks.

[888888]

The term used in my area is "cutting". In HS, I would cut classes a lot. There were some classes that I spent less time in than out. I also failed a lot. :P In my HS, we got the option to go outside to eat lunch and sometimes, I would not bother coming back. Sometimes, I would get drunk on my grapefruit juice and vodka and have to find a way to leave the school. Still, I wish I had cut more in HS because some of the classes I attended ALL THE TIME and was bored to death in I still failed. It's actually quite tragic how much time I wasted sitting and staring blankly at the clock in HS. Probably 100s of hours.

Since college costs money, I try to go to classes more often, but I still tend to cut some, especially early ones. There was a chemistry 101 class in college that I only attended about half the time. Got an A-!

[pyrate83]

There was a chemistry 101 class in college that I only attended about half the time. Got an F!

Serves you right.

Where's Turdistan BTW? We call it cutting class here also.

[pacmania_2001]

Skipping, wagging, cutting, all the same thing.

I had an experience like Jim's with a few teachers trying to catch us but we outsmarted them. It was during the QCS which are these tests that everyone in year 12 has to do to compare standards between school. They are over 2 days and you have 2 modules a day which last 2 hours and a 1 hour break in between. For some stupid reason or another you can't leave certain areas in the school which are supervised by teachers during that break. Well we were hanging out for some Maccas so we snuck out from that area and headed down to the place in my mates car. The service was shocking that day and we ended up having about 10 minutes to get back to school before the next module started so my mate (driving a 1.3L auto Corolla) was flooring it (which meant doing about 62km/h) to get back in time.

As we were driving past the front of the school to pull in we saw our other mates getting abused by the teachers for leaving the school to get Maccas so were shitting ourselves trying to come up with a plan to get back into the school grounds unnoticed. In the end we drove around the back of the school and had to go through bushland and over the creek to get in the back way.

[Rookie64]

I had some special privileges that allowed me to either get out of classes (every now and then) or at least cut a few short...and a few times I'd take advantage of (along with my friends/classmates) extending it longer than the time that was actually given. That was back in Junior High and High School.

Senior Year, we had a Senior skip day and all met up at a female classmate's home (near the school). None of the seniors showed up at school that day, so the assistant principal asked around and eventually found out where we were and he came looking for us and acted like he was partying with the rest of us but turned in everyone he saw, and we all had to make the day up at the end of the school term

Both days were fun anyway.

Was funny, 'cause he called my parents on the phone to tell 'em I skipped school and my Mom was sayin' I was at home...and he's sayin' oh really...then there must be 2 of me


Only cut a class once in college (that I can recall).

[Epicurus8a]

When I was in college, I regularly skipped "The Psychology of Sexuality" and got some notes from my friends in the class. As I turned in my final exam on the last day of class, the professor whispered to me, "Why did you do better than your friends did when you weren't even in class?" I just smiled and winked.

[888888]

Where's Turdistan BTW? We call it cutting class here also.

Turdistan is a small and very mountainous nation in central Asia. The main export as might be expected is turds. The capital city where I live is called Shitabad.

Actually, I'm from New York City.

[HatchetMan]

I don't know about the high schools around you guys, but around me, more and more often they are making them closed campuses, no leaving for lunch. There have been many accidents reported over the last few years with students being involved in fatal automotive accidents. Racing to get back to school on time and what not, usually only get a half an hour. The last one, last month, was a New Beetle crammed with 5 kids, I think at least 3 of them died. Sad really. But they gotta drive to and from school too, right? I say just give them an hour lunch so they don't have to be in such a damn hurry. Maybe even have a vanpool to the local hangouts so they don't have to cram so much. Just my 2 cents.