View Full Version : When you were a kid did you ditch school?
SanJose
10-16-2008, 08:06 PM
just came up into my mind..
i used to ditch 5 or so times a year... less my senior year because my ma was on my ass all day.
jonyak
10-16-2008, 08:07 PM
haha ya...
and when I turned 18 I could write all my own notes, so I just took days off whenever I felt like it.
Darkrabbit18
10-16-2008, 08:08 PM
I have never ditched school.
I faked illness instead :sly:
Justinian
10-16-2008, 08:08 PM
I could literally see my house from the school, so, yeah, all the goddamn time.
Killuminati
10-16-2008, 08:08 PM
During worthless classes like Guitar, yah, because it meant I could eat lunch earlier. I didn't skip school for a whole day that much though.
BladeSLicer
10-16-2008, 08:08 PM
Does faking illness count? I did that on a regular basis.
I recall actually ditching school without actually leaving it in order to avoid tests at times.. I'd generally just hide either in the bathroom or behind the library for the period and then come back.
This was a private school, so that's no small accomplishment! ;)
DeathByCactus
10-16-2008, 08:09 PM
I have never ditched school.
I faked illness instead :sly:
That is the same thing... it is just the smart way of doing it.
shnedit
10-16-2008, 08:09 PM
A seriously massive amount. We even used to jump over the metal gates.
SanJose
10-16-2008, 08:10 PM
Does faking illness count? I did that on a regular basis.
I recall actually ditching school without actually leaving it in order to avoid tests at times.. I'd generally just hide either in the bathroom or behind the library for the period and then come back.
This was a private school, so that's no small accomplishment! ;)
my freshman year i faked illnesses all the time... after that my mom wouldn't let me stay home even if i was sick, so i started ditching.
I usually just ditched one period, unless i really didn't want at be at school.
lol i had the same saying every time i was sick.
"Ma, I feel hella sick"
That is the same thing... it is just the smart way of doing it.
Heh, true!
SanJose
10-16-2008, 08:11 PM
Does faking illness count? I did that on a regular basis.
I recall actually ditching school without actually leaving it in order to avoid tests at times.. I'd generally just hide either in the bathroom or behind the library for the period and then come back.
This was a private school, so that's no small accomplishment! ;)
My school had teachers and cops checking for people ditching or smoking weed all the time... if you ditched you had to get away from the school to not get caught.
Battle
10-16-2008, 08:12 PM
My dad would have whipped my ass if I was caught ditching without telling him, but if I told him, and didnt abuse it, then he didnt care. Sometimes if he had a day off, I would ditch school so we could go fishing or something. I was a pretty good student though so it didnt really matter.
Floyd
10-16-2008, 08:14 PM
I was averaging about once every 2 days.
SanJose
10-16-2008, 08:14 PM
my school always called home at around 5:30 every night if you ditched. so i would just take the phone into my room and not answer it if they called.
Malhavok
10-16-2008, 08:14 PM
Why the hell would you ditch and hang around anyway?
I'm pretty sure I, and others like me, kept this one coffee shop/cafe/hookah bar in the black solely because of our ditching. It closed about a year after my class graduated, I guess they younger kids found a new place to crash. And as for a numeric number... probably 10 times Freshman/Sophmore years, 30 times Junior year and I don't even want to count Senior year. It was a bad day when I went without ditching at least one class. Hell, I had a few days where I showed up to school three or four times and never made it farther than the parking lot.
SanJose
10-16-2008, 08:16 PM
Why the hell would you ditch and hang around anyway?
I'm pretty sure I, and others like me, kept this one coffee shop/cafe/hookah bar in the black solely because of our ditching. It closed about a year after my class graduated, I guess they younger kids found a new place to crash. And as for a numeric number... probably 10 times Freshman/Sophmore years, 30 times Junior year and I don't even want to count Senior year. It was a bad day when I went without ditching at least one class. Hell, I had a few days where I showed up to school three or four times and never made it farther than the parking lot.
did your school have a lot of teachers/cops looking?
for real.. at my school, if you show up, you are not leaving unless you get a note or your on some super incognito shit.
I used to tell my teacher i had to go to the bathroom b4 the bell rang, and i would sneak out before the cops started blocking out the gates.
Temet nosce
10-16-2008, 08:16 PM
Let me put it this way, if any of the schools had graded me on attendance I would've gotten around 20-30%. Or less.
Razli
10-16-2008, 08:28 PM
I've faked an illness like once. My parents have let me have adays off school. But havent ditched school. Not something I do.
stalwart
10-16-2008, 08:28 PM
20+ almost went to jail for it more than 1 time.
Viluin
10-16-2008, 08:29 PM
Primary school.. pretty much never.
High school.. At least once a week.
Uni.. I rarely go, although It's not really ditching because it's not compulsory.
rwp80
10-16-2008, 08:31 PM
"School"...?
kordoyn
10-16-2008, 08:32 PM
At least a couple classes a week, rarely a whole day though.
Tiarilir
10-16-2008, 08:33 PM
once every week or so.
Viluin
10-16-2008, 08:34 PM
By the way, in high school I usually ditched the first class, because I couldn't be arsed to get out of bed. I never planned on ditching classes, because the school was on my fucking ass all the time. It's just that, if you were late, you had to show up at 8 AM the next day. Fuck that, I'd rather just skip a class.
Skyborn
10-16-2008, 08:38 PM
My school was way anal retentive...you had to have a note etc etc etc...
My senior year I never had my mom write me a note for anything...but my friend Jen would write all my notes for me so they couldnt get me on mismatched handwriting...it was great. We had lunch together...so if I didn't feel like going to class in the PM I would just have her whip one up and I would bail.
Lamiosa
10-16-2008, 08:41 PM
My parents did not care about if I go to school or not, but they cared about marks. At our school if you were not in class and did not had a note of doctor 1 week later, that said you was unable to go to class, you got a 6 for that day (german marks, I guess thats an F in US, the worsest mark). And because I already planned to study at university later, I could not take getting bad marks. I am happy after all I never ditched, because else I would never be able to study what I do today. On other side I do not judge people taking school not serious or ditching school, but they should not gripe about their bosses later then, who earned a higher education.
Metal Wolf
10-16-2008, 08:44 PM
Are we talking whole days off or just randomly leaving?
Cause I just left at lunch every day and ate at a restaurant instead of that shit they shoveled out in the cafeteria.
Was fun to, being a Military school sneaking out and back in took a bit of work. I was a sneaky son of a bitch by the end of the year.
Viluin
10-16-2008, 08:46 PM
My parents did not care about if I go to school or not, but they cared about marks. At our school if you were not in class and did not had a note of doctor 1 week later, that said you was unable to go to class, you got a 6 for that day (german marks, I guess thats an F in US, the worsest mark). And because I already planned to study at university later, I could not take getting bad marks. I am happy after all I never ditched, because else I would never be able to study what I do today. On other side I do not judge people taking school not serious or ditching school, but they should not gripe about their bosses later then, who earned a higher education.
If you can handle the education without going to class there's nothing wrong with it. The people who mess up and have to repeat a year (or go down a level of education) are the fuck ups. High school grades don't count for shit, unless you want to go to med school in which case they'll increase your chances. At least that's the case here.
I heard school security comes to pick you up in the us if you ditch without a valid reason. true not true?
Lamiosa
10-16-2008, 08:50 PM
In our country education counts. At least in the university I study in you need Abitur (highest graduation in school) and good marks for some subjects.
Temet nosce
10-16-2008, 08:54 PM
My parents did not care about if I go to school or not, but they cared about marks. At our school if you were not in class and did not had a note of doctor 1 week later, that said you was unable to go to class, you got a 6 for that day (german marks, I guess thats an F in US, the worsest mark). And because I already planned to study at university later, I could not take getting bad marks. I am happy after all I never ditched, because else I would never be able to study what I do today. On other side I do not judge people taking school not serious or ditching school, but they should not gripe about their bosses later then, who earned a higher education.
You know what, fuck everything I just typed out and erased. I'll simplify it all for you.
The American school system sucks, it concentrates on teaching idiots to the detriment of anyone who can actually think. Worse, you're discouraged from skipping grades or getting a GED early. So skipping is not only a valid choice, it's basically the only choice for a lot of us.
Kusghuul
10-16-2008, 08:58 PM
Never. Didn't see the point in wasting taxpayers' money.
I never ditched school until I was in my senor year then I ditched all the dam time because I had enough credits at the start of my senor year.
Ababoba
10-16-2008, 09:04 PM
Have never ditched :(
Scully
10-16-2008, 09:19 PM
I've always skipped school 5 days and 10 hours every half year.
Lictor
10-16-2008, 09:20 PM
I ditch now.
Beorg
10-16-2008, 09:20 PM
I only did this on days when I'd forget my homework or before a big test I was nowhere near prepared for.
rc10goof
10-16-2008, 09:22 PM
Never ever, i was always a good boy :) still am....
Xalren
10-16-2008, 09:23 PM
I have never ditched school.
I faked illness instead :sly:
^
ExiliuM
10-16-2008, 09:40 PM
I'm in my second year of high school, I think I have skipped about 8-9 days so far. Some seperate classes too when I was tired and just went home.
And last year I knew a guy that would drop into school once every second week. That won't get you through... lol. He's not a dropout, he's a drop-in
Malhavok
10-16-2008, 09:42 PM
My parents did not care about if I go to school or not, but they cared about marks. At our school if you were not in class and did not had a note of doctor 1 week later, that said you was unable to go to class, you got a 6 for that day (german marks, I guess thats an F in US, the worsest mark). And because I already planned to study at university later, I could not take getting bad marks. I am happy after all I never ditched, because else I would never be able to study what I do today. On other side I do not judge people taking school not serious or ditching school, but they should not gripe about their bosses later then, who earned a higher education.
Eh, I ditched like hell and still ended up in a Uni catering to the top 5-8% or so. Then again it helped that I excelled in the difficult courses and had a buttload of extracurriculars that weren't the normal resume padders. As bad as primary and secondary education are in America they do have the distinct advantage that they are intended to teach you how to think versus much of the rest of the world which is taught how to memorize. It's honestly the only redeeming quality our fucked up education system has.
Vanno
10-16-2008, 09:45 PM
My mother was the attendance secretary during highschool, so I could pretty much come and go. I was also a 4.0 student and a multi-sport athlete, so nobody really gave me shit about it. Although one of my English teachers cracked a couple jokes when me and a couple friends left school to get GTA 2.
Malhavok
10-16-2008, 09:46 PM
I'm in my second year of high school, I think I have skipped about 8-9 days so far. Some seperate classes too when I was tired and just went home.
And last year I knew a guy that would drop into school once every second week. That won't get you through... lol. He's not a dropout, he's a drop-in
Well, I had AP physics senior year and had less than 50% attendance rate. It was first period and do to our school being dumb the penalty for being tardy was an hour of detention after school (and I had practice so that wasn't going to fly) or you could use a Saturday school to clear 3 detentions. There was no punishment for not showing up, so when ever I was late I just didn't go to first period.
Pulled an A in the class. It was AP, grading was based 80% on tests and 20% homework. I made sure I was there when those occured.
Jinpachi
10-16-2008, 09:46 PM
In my second year of highschool I was absent 44 whole days and 242 hours.
Kahul_Bane
10-16-2008, 09:47 PM
haha ya...
and when I turned 18 I could write all my own notes, so I just took days off whenever I felt like it.
Me too, :lmao:
Generally took off Monday or Friday... And a decent amount of time Monday and Friday in the same week. For roughly the last 2-3 years of school.
When I went to high school, the students were allowed to miss around 18 days per semester. I usually missed 15 to 17 each sememster. One of my friends had a car, so we'd take road trips to other cities and hang-out till it was time to return home. I did this mostly in 8th grade, 11th grade, and the 12th grade. I only missed half of my alloted days for 9th and 10th.
Hell... looking back, I'm surprised I even graduated. I still made good grades, and only had one F and 2 D's. All the rest of my grades were A's, B's, and C's.
Oh, and now the local schools only allow around 9 days per semester. (atleast I think that is the right number).
Tzacharu
10-16-2008, 10:14 PM
Faked sick about 5 times a year.
I could've gone to just about every day of school in middle school and high school, but there were a few days I just didn't feel like going.
Mazer
10-16-2008, 10:15 PM
My school was really finicky for attendance and my parents would inevitably have found out leading to me being pwned hardcore.
Bawlin
10-16-2008, 10:28 PM
Don't like risking it. It's mostly because you get ISS on the first fucking unexcused absence, and teachers report them all day.
Rimayven
10-16-2008, 10:43 PM
When I was a young asshole, I never took my studies seriously. My school was filled with assholes, but I can't remember the names of those overpaid bastards who get rich for trying to get me to abide by 'school rules'
A school week never went past without me sneaking out during at least two days. No one really cared...and usually nobody even noticed I disappeared... except this asshole.
Skyborn
10-16-2008, 10:44 PM
Generally took off Monday or Friday... And a decent amount of time Monday and Friday in the same week. For roughly the last 2-3 years of school.
Something just occured to me...most of the fuckers on forumfall are prolly still in HS...this poll is fail!
Helgeran
10-16-2008, 10:46 PM
Never in grade school, a few hours a week in high school and almost every day in college.
Something just occured to me...most of the fuckers on forumfall are prolly still in HS...this poll is fail!
"The last 2-3 years of school"
Would be in reference to grades 9-12. Seems you got a little hung up there.
Malhavok
10-16-2008, 10:59 PM
Don't like risking it. It's mostly because you get ISS on the first fucking unexcused absence, and teachers report them all day.
You do realize you can ditch that to, don't you? The idea that we'll suspend you for not going to school is just completely absurd. Go ahead and thank you for cutting why don't they. I had a Saturday school that escalated to a 2 day out of school suspension for disagreeing with my English teacher that Fahrenheit 451 was not politically motivated.
When my councilor asked what I learned from the ordeal I told her; "If you have an academic disagreement with your teacher they give you two days of vacation." Cheeky sure, but true. It'd really depend on WHAT I got in trouble for though... if it had been for cutting classes my parents would have made my life living hell.
tallefred
10-16-2008, 11:08 PM
I dropped out after 10th and finished high school on my own. Not a GED, I took a correspondence course which gives you a state of Pennsylvania diploma. Took me about a month to do 2 years of work.
Killuminati
10-16-2008, 11:09 PM
You do realize you can ditch that to, don't you? The idea that we'll suspend you for not going to school is just completely absurd. Go ahead and thank you for cutting why don't they. I had a Saturday school that escalated to a 2 day out of school suspension for disagreeing with my English teacher that Fahrenheit 451 was not politically motivated.
Are you serious? That's completely absurd. They probably said you were disrupting class right?
Skyborn
10-16-2008, 11:11 PM
"The last 2-3 years of school"
Would be in reference to grades 9-12. Seems you got a little hung up there.
Sorry Kin...didnt mean to quote you...I was making fun of the OP...just saying that if you are in schoold you can't have skipped when you were a kid cause...you know they are still in school etc.
My mom was too caught up in her own life to register me for high school, so I had to fill out all the paperwork myself. A few weeks into the first year I got sick and missed school. My mom gave me a note, and they rejected it as a forgery because the signature did not match what was on my reg papers. Basically, I had to write my own notes for them to be accepted. It kicked so much ass.
Some of my favorite ditching moments:
"Today's the grand opening of that new Burger King! Screw 1st period, lets go to the Play Place!"
This became a weekly event for most of my junior year.
"OMG SAIL! Nsync's new cd is being released today! Come wait in line at Best Buy with me!!"
I hated nsync, but I did get to hang out playing Crazy Taxi at Best Buy for 2nd and 3rd period that day.
and my personal (most painful) favorite...
"Sail, I have a test next period that I might fail, so I'm going to the health department to get some optional vaccine instead... Let's go!!!"
Well I clearly couldn't miss that one! I think I got a flu shot or something. I don't really remember what they injected me with. Good times.
I sometimes wonder how I managed to graduate.
holychicken
10-16-2008, 11:31 PM
20+ times a year?
LMFAO! What a load of horse shit.
Well, I guess maybe not. . .considering the amount of ignorance I read on this board, it explains a lot.
I put zero only because I never played hooky until highschool and really only took a few days off my jr and sr year. Maybe like 5-6 total over 12 years of school.
I had a ton of fun at school, I am not sure why everyone hated it so much. . .oh wait, I know why, it was the "cool" thing to do.
I never ditch whole days... so far this year i have ditched 2 classes, last year i ditched 5 or 6. I can't ditch whole days because if i stayed at home my mom would catch me on her lunchbreak, and all my friends are in school so i have no where else to go.
20+ times a year?
LMFAO! What a load of horse shit.
Well, I guess maybe not. . .considering the amount of ignorance I read on this board, it explains a lot.
I put zero only because I never played hooky until highschool and really only took a few days off my jr and sr year. Maybe like 5-6 total over 12 years of school.
I had a ton of fun at school, I am not sure why everyone hated it so much. . .oh wait, I know why, it was the "cool" thing to do.
So you went to some extremely expensive private school?
Cause otherwise you're just making yourself look dumb.
So you went to some extremely expensive private school?
Cause otherwise you're just making yourself look dumb.
i have to agree with you... school is the opposite of fun... the only good parts are lunch and Break, maybe you can add the 2 or 3 classes where your actually with some friends, and have good teachers.
the public school system sucks... and 90% of the teachers suck also.
holychicken
10-16-2008, 11:36 PM
So you went to some extremely expensive private school?
Nope, I went to an extremely high quality public school.
Cause otherwise you're just making yourself look dumb.
Going to school makes you dumb? LMAO! Classic. I love this place, you people never cease to crack me up.
spetznaz007
10-16-2008, 11:37 PM
I started, last half of the 2nd semester of sophomore year. Once or twice every 2 weeks.
Then Junior year, my cuz got a car, and damn the first few weeks of school, a few people thought I had transferred somewhere else. So for my senior year I got homeschool, cause my parents found out about the 30+ absences per semester. Most were excused though.
Temet nosce
10-16-2008, 11:47 PM
Nope, I went to an extremely high quality public school.
Going to school makes you dumb? LMAO! Classic. I love this place, you people never cease to crack me up.
No, he's correct. Only someone who actually needed the help could enjoy the American school system, because unless you're a problem student you spend most of the time in school learning nothing.
Although from what I understand this has gotten even worse since No Child Left Behind got put into effect... I always found that idea fucking idiotic. Pity it took everyone else so long to realize it was a bad idea.
Killuminati
10-16-2008, 11:49 PM
No, he's correct. Only someone who actually needed the help could enjoy the American school system, because unless you're a problem student you spend most of the time in school learning nothing.
Although from what I understand this has gotten even worse since No Child Left Behind got put into effect... I always found that idea fucking idiotic. Pity it took everyone else so long to realize it was a bad idea.
He enjoyed the progressive brainwashing he received from his teachers.
holychicken
10-16-2008, 11:59 PM
No, he's correct. Only someone who actually needed the help could enjoy the American school system, because unless you're a problem student you spend most of the time in school learning nothing.
Went to a top 100 US public school and a top 25 US university. I guess if that is "problem student" then sign me up. I was a problem student and a half!
Although from what I understand this has gotten even worse since No Child Left Behind got put into effect... I always found that idea fucking idiotic. Pity it took everyone else so long to realize it was a bad idea.
I didn't exactly live in an area where there were many students that would get left behind.
I live in a place filled with mexican gangbangers mostly... and most of them don't even try in school... i think they should just be allowed not to go since there not even trying... classrooms are filled with students who won't succeed no matter how much you try helping them...
I only took 2½ year of high school ditched a half year over 3 years. not to mention the reports :P
Its just too bad that its impossible to learn without schools.. :bang:
Mungad
10-17-2008, 12:18 AM
Once, ever and got caught.
another point...
90% of the things you learn in school will never be needed in real life...They should make it so all the material that will not help a student in his own life is optional...I think thats what makes a lot of kids hate school..
I learn more from TV and the internet than i do from school.
Temet nosce
10-17-2008, 12:23 AM
Its just too bad that its impossible to learn without schools.. :bang:
I hadn't attended school for either two or three years when I took my SAT, and I scored over 1500.
Viluin
10-17-2008, 12:29 AM
I hadn't attended school for either two or three years when I took my SAT, and I scored over 1500.
Truly intelligent people, like me, didn't do shit in high school and started stomping everything into their heads a single day before finals week. I really didn't do anything, teachers would ask me simple stuff in class and I wouldn't know the answer. Still, I passed without much trouble.
another point...
90% of the things you learn in school will never be needed in real life...They should make it so all the material that will not help a student in his own life is optional...I think thats what makes a lot of kids hate school..
I learn more from TV and the internet than i do from school.
High school is meant to prepare you for tertiary education. It's not necessarily about learning things, it's about learning how to learn.
Nexus
10-17-2008, 12:34 AM
Illness faking, 5-10.
Actually it was probably more than that towards the end, but thats only because i'd finished my coursework and revising in lessons was pointless due to fuck tard teachers, so I revised at home in the same time frame.
AtanasRikard
10-17-2008, 12:35 AM
Meh, I didn't ditch much. My senior year I was done with all my classes before 11 am anyways.
Niteflite
10-17-2008, 12:35 AM
I faked much illness in 3rd grade, some in grade 4, after that I kinda didnt care.
I have not really skipped any classes in high school, maybe i would just ditch it after i finished the work and leave for the rest of the class, but havent really skipped....yet
I faked much illness in 3rd grade, some in grade 4, after that I kinda didnt care.
I have not really skipped any classes in high school, maybe i would just ditch it after i finished the work and leave for the rest of the class, but havent really skipped....yethow would you do that? you would be caught hella fast if you actually ditched during a class.
Amaryl
10-17-2008, 12:39 AM
in my last year my mom got a letter about my absence.
and it said that I missed one hour or more on a total of 178 days that year, but since all my grades were good, she didn't care, she walked up to me and said; so that's why you never have school early, or you're always home by noon.
Morthor
10-17-2008, 12:43 AM
I don't think I ever skipped school when I was in primary. Secondary, loads of times, but never the whole day, usually the odd lesson I did'nt feel like. In college I took loads of days off, wish I did'nt tbh but I don't think I've missed anything significant at uni so far, not that it's as important.
Niteflite
10-17-2008, 01:11 AM
how would you do that? you would be caught hella fast if you actually ditched during a class.
Not really, I would just ask to go to the bathroom and just chill for a while only when there was a test though, and i finished.
Bawlin
10-17-2008, 01:24 AM
Sort of off-topic, but worth mentioning.
This (http://hamptonroads.com/2008/10/some-schools-using-zero-scores-doesnt-add) is what's happening near my school district right now. Talk about fucking pussies worried about peoples' self-esteem.
Yuppa
10-17-2008, 01:25 AM
how would you do that? you would be caught hella fast if you actually ditched during a class.
what high school you go to ikaj
-Havoc-
10-17-2008, 01:25 AM
Perfect attendance.
Lioness
10-17-2008, 01:28 AM
I suppose I never skipped an entire day... So... 0?
Although I did skip World History(and US History and US Government in the following years... Basically any variation of history/civics) alllll the time and like 4/5 days of the week I would go in an hour or two late because I forgot to do a project or something...
I didn't really feel the need to skip since my boyfriend was in almost all of my classes and most of my teachers didn't give a shit if we fell asleep in class... And I figured if I skipped all I would want to do is sleep because I was raised in a small town where there was NOTHING to do...
Gmoneyslim12
10-17-2008, 02:21 AM
Never Ditched, But faked illness a few times :)
ejnomad07
10-17-2008, 06:38 AM
Tried not to ditch. Needed the grades....
palo god
10-17-2008, 06:40 AM
I ditched a lot my freshman year of high school, those were some good times.
Lethn
10-17-2008, 06:42 AM
I didn't ditch school but when I discovered that my grades were fucking useless and the college course I was taking was pointless too I just decided eventually to only go to the lessons that I found fun which were basically hardly any of them.
I had never felt so fulfilled and free in my life believe it or not.
5%Luck
10-17-2008, 07:22 AM
They used to pull my mother out of work to force me into school then id walk out the back door. This wasn't untill I was to stay after school every single day just to do homework(which i never did). Thats when it all ended. Now im a semi successful business owner! No one tells me where to go and when to do it! just me as it should be!
spetznaz007
10-17-2008, 08:59 AM
Truly intelligent people, like me, didn't do shit in high school and started stomping everything into their heads a single day before finals week. I really didn't do anything, teachers would ask me simple stuff in class and I wouldn't know the answer. Still, I passed without much trouble.
High school is meant to prepare you for tertiary education. It's not necessarily about learning things, it's about learning how to learn.
No, it was a way to prepare kids to work in the factories. Everything is done by bells, you eat when the bell rings, you go from class to class when the bell rings. Everyone does pretty much the same thing. It was to teach the kids how to do mundane tasks through out their entire life. That was how school was in the 1900s, thats why the U.S. is so far behind in testing. Its school system hasn't kept up with the changing world.
what high school you go to ikaj
I go to Branham HS in San Jose...
Titus Ultor
10-17-2008, 09:15 AM
No, it was a way to prepare kids to work in the factories. Everything is done by bells, you eat when the bell rings, you go from class to class when the bell rings. Everyone does pretty much the same thing. It was to teach the kids how to do mundane tasks through out their entire life. That was how school was in the 1900s, thats why the U.S. is so far behind in testing. Its school system hasn't kept up with the changing world.
This. Primary school in the U.S. was built on the Prussian model (kindergarten, anyone?), which of course emphasized the traditional Prussian values of statism, discipline and mental rigidity.
I was horrible with attendance, easily missed 30 days a year... full days too.. Almost got kicked out on multiple ocasions, but I was good at bullshitting my way out of everything.
My mom never found out because the stupid school had an automated machine that would call saying "Your son skipped periods ___ " and the thing is it called at the same time, give or take 10 minutes, so all I had to do was make sure I answered the phone.
Jinpachi
10-17-2008, 10:21 AM
Perfect attendance.
you fucking geek
Spart
10-17-2008, 12:07 PM
You all had to do such elaborate stuff? Hell, when we want to ditch, we just walk right out, there are like 3 teachers who actually give a shit, the rest just watch you leave and can't be bothered doing anything.
Lotharr
10-17-2008, 12:11 PM
A lot.
Tomigutt
10-17-2008, 12:15 PM
Ditch school?
And throw away valuable learning time?
Thats like ditching working out in the gym, or ditching breakfast..
Sounds pretty retarded to me.
rainbow_cow
10-17-2008, 12:18 PM
I was a straight A student untill high school
The summer between 8th grade and freshman year at high school, I discovered...beer:(
Anyway here is how I spent my freshman and sophmore years;
1) meet at friends house (single mom was already at work bringing home the bacon)
2) smoke and watch cartoons and MTV
3) meet more friends at school during lunch
4) smoke, drink, and watch more cartoons and MTV at another friends house whos single mom was still at work
Then I pulled my head out of my ass and joined the army and got a college degree.
Atnas
10-17-2008, 12:21 PM
Almost never in grade school, increased in high school and not once when I started University!
Baralis
10-17-2008, 01:16 PM
I skipped school fairly often in highschool. I also recieved a honorary award at graduation in front of the entire school. It was a joke by my teachers and not a real reward but it stated that I was the first student ever to sleep threw every single class and still graduate. :(
iluhaftw
10-17-2008, 03:17 PM
You mean just leaving during the day or just not to go?
countless times... O.o
holychicken
10-17-2008, 03:42 PM
you fucking geek
More proof that this thread is about trying to be cool rather than actually being honest.
I feel bad for you who haven't gotten beyond HS yet.
alfaroverall
10-17-2008, 03:42 PM
Nope, was never into that tbh.
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