did you ever walk out on school?

[TheAmazingHobo]

No, never.... okay, ONCE but that was because of me being a moronic teenager.
Otherwise, I got along fine with the teaching staff and tried to learn stuff.

Which is why I was able to deal with the first two semesters of mathematics without either working myself to death or quitting entirely.
It´s all fun and games, till you meet a professor who actually expects you to know that shit you should have learned in school.

Somehow I managed to only attend school about 50% of the time; my ninth and tenth year I managed to take off almost completely (through various techniques, although I was genuinely unwell for a large portion of time too). As such, my teacher warned me I'd best "get used to stacking shelves". Now 25, I earned twice as much as the average teacher. HAHA, I WIN!! (/sorry, bitter bragging over)

I don´t agree with the wording of your teachers warning, but in my experience, there IS a strong correlation between people skipping school and people failing hilariously in university (which is the only thing I can really comment on, never having worked anywhere else).
But grats on being an exception, good that it worked out for you.

 

[SckizoBoy]

I skipped every maths lesson ever given by my primary school, every maths lesson ever given by my secondary school (up to sixth form...). I basically got privileges for mooching about, which was kinda cool...

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

No but I had to go back a year because the stress of bullying and my parents fighting every night, both physically and verbally made me get a stomach ulcer when I was 16 :|

Awesome.

Actually it kind of turned out for the best because going down a year gave me a fresh start and gave me two years of peace at school at least. My parents were still dicks though. I came away with 5 and a half A levels and did a BA in History and BSc in Computer Science at uni. Because that's how I roll.

 

[Flames66]

I left primary school in year 3 or 4 because they had no idea how to deal with dyslexia. I only went back to school in year 9.

 

[Farther than stars]

like the title says and by walking out I mean leaving the school (both permanently and temporary)
here is my story:
in 2009 I went to a school for people with autism and there where allot of students that have ODD which in my experience is pretty much a free pass to bully and act like a asshole (I do have a friend that has ODD but his case doesn't look as bad as the people I had to deal with on school) the school kept telling me it was my own problem and I should just deal with it.
Somewhere near the end of the year some guy called me names and I just ran out I couldn't handle that shit anymore and I haven,t returned since.
I,m currently going to a special school that is only for students with Autism excluding people with ODD also I,m going to finish my school next year.

Yeah, sure. Only once though, when I was still in primary school. I remember walking out because I was being bullied and I needed time to myself. It seemed like the levelheaded thing to do then and it still does now, but my teacher got really angery at my (though that was partly because of a miscommunication) and my mother was really disappointed.
Although looking back, perhaps that episode is what started a social molding into a stance of not backing down for anything. But then again its memorability may lend from the fact that it was such an unusual action for the otherwise firm and resolute me to undertake. Who knows?

 

[Farther than stars]

Nope. Now I work as a neurology specialist earning $130,000 a year....

And that's a bit of a spiteful post, don't you think? =/
Sure, I understand your message, but especially as a neurologist you should comprehend that avoiding a situation brought on by emotional frustration is different to avoiding one triggered by a lack of interested.
Clearly I'm biased. But biased or not, this if what your post lead me to write.

 

[Farther than stars]

Ran away when I got detention in grade 6 for refusing to recite my 6 times tables. (I had trouble with sixes!!)

The teacher thought I was being lazy due to me being generally good at math and being able to work it out quite quickly for tests, I just didn't know them by heart for recital. (6x7? 4x6 = 24, 24x2 = 48, 48-6 = 42 .'. 6x7 = 42)

I was given lines about talking back and then told to write my 6 times tables out 1 to 12 as many times as I could through lunch.

I simply waited until I was unsupervised and walked out the back, grabbed my bad and ran out of the school grounds. As I was running past the oval (had to to get home) a kid I knew saw me and pointed me out to a teacher so I took back roads home from then on because I thought they would be looking for me.

I ended up explaining it all to my mum who was waiting at home (she'd been called at work).
She made me practice all weekend (It was either Friday when I ran away or she kept me home until the day of a parent-teacher interview the following week) then when I went in I recited perfectly, said sorry, Dad and Mum explained the problem to my teacher who then apologised to me. Cool guy, he's the principal of that school now.

I'm just going to say "Cool story bro", because sometimes words just need to be used in the way their original meaning intended.

 

[Farther than stars]

That's what I'm saying; I get your general message, but looking back at henritje's original post I feel we can all agree that there are isolated and very specific incidents in which such measures might be deemed appropriate, without conflicting with a long-term educational progress.
(This is good by the way. This is proper debating and I'm loving it. Thanks for the experience.)

 

[Littlee300]

Nope. Now I work as a neurology specialist earning $130,000 a year....

Not sure if you are trying to inspire the OP or spite him
_____________________________________________________________________________
Perhaps you can take that one test that allows you to skip highschool. Forgot the name.
Perhaps it is the GED
http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=GED_TS&CFID=1896250&CFTOKEN=77714830&jsessionid=1630e195170d$1D$BF$D

link for more info

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

Sorry if that's what you got from my post but I don't think I could have gotten here if I bunked every other day :/

That's true, but not all kids know exactly what they want to do by 16. I skipped a lot of classes for various reasons. I chose my subjects based on what I was good at and what I felt people expected me to do rather than what I enjoy. Some of my subjects I had no motivation to do well in.
Combining that with some emotional problems I had and the fact that there's a big difference between school and 6th form college in regards to freedom.
In this country, until you're 16, it's very much in for a penny in for a pound when you need to take a day off. At my school at least, they would call up your parents if you missed a lesson amd so you had to get your parents on board and my mother isn't a moron.
But then after you're 16, if you don't want to go to something, you don't have to go. It's an opportunity to rebel in a way that before you just couldn't and being a teenager, that's what you want to do.

I'm not saying skipping school was a good thing, but I worked hard at revising and I got pretty good grades in some quite lofty subjects. But I ended up going after a career in a field I had no interest in, I hated doing it so now I have no idea what I want to do with my life again.

 

[Lewis Braid]

I was looking from your post to the title for a good minute trying to find the spelling mistake you pointed out. God, I'm a retard sometimes (maybe I should walk out of school less)(even though I've never actually done that).

 

[SilverIntoSteel]

Not in school, but when I was in University I was absolutely terrible for it. In the third year I ended up not going to a single lecture for about a month. Still got a 2:1 though, but I have such a low drive to do anything that I have pissed away pretty much all of my potential, and I could have easily got a 1st had I applied myself. I regret it and don't advise anyone to skip school. Make the most of your chance or you'll end up working a shitty job with a bad wage.

 

[therandombear]

I was gone a lot during elementary school. I was bullied every day all the time.

Kids are cruel =(

 

[Wintermoot]

I quit three months before final exam. Two years later I got diagnosed with Asperger and Anxiety disorder.
Seems strange that they have ODD peeps along with Autists. (ODD, seriously?) Like, throw problem children in a heap or something.

yeah the government pretty much used the school I was going to as a trash can for people who have learning problems.

 

[Wintermoot]

Should have replied "well at least im not faking an illness" honestly ODD what a load of BS

Well i skipped school a few....hundred times in my day

Hope you happier days now mate!

thanks! I,m currently going to a school where the teachers care about their students.

 

[SilentCom]

No, but I did turn the firehose on and destroy an entire corridor.

Never got caught either, hehe.

LOl, win.

OT: I've never walked out on school. I was sort of an over-achiever while in high school but not so much now in university.

 

[Wintermoot]

Nope. Now I work as a neurology specialist earning $130,000 a year....

if you look closely I didn't say I stopped going to school entirely.
I just said I stopped going to a school I transferred shortly afterwards.
legally I,m allowed to stop going to school this year but I plan to finish it so I can get a IT job

 

[Mr Pantomime]

Walk? out of School? Ridiculous. I get my Butler to carry me.

 

[Thumper17]

Nope. Now I work as a neurology specialist earning $130,000 a year....

Serves you right!!

wait...


I was bullied viciously. So I tended to tell school to fuck itself when I'd had enough, since they didn't seem to be doing shit. Too many pairs of glasses broken, too many headaches, too many names being called. I never walked out of school early, but their were plenty of times I never went.

Yup. I now realize I could have just called the police and had them taken in. Which I heartilly recommend to anyone being bullied with the teachers not doing shit.

Have the police come and ask to press full charges. Though, it would probably only work in high school. Grade/Year 10-12/13. I think if more kids did that their would be less bullying.

 

[orangeapples]

I just didn't want to deal with school once, so I went to the nurse's office and said I wasn't feeling well; they told me that since I was 18 I could sign myself out, so I did and drove home.