Poll: Skipping school?!

[Danman1]

My moms a teacher, so I can tell you for a fact that all the teachers skip about once every 2 months ish. She lets me skip once in a while, especially if it's a friday or day before a break because, quote, "It's all bullshit that day, anyway. I never taught anything."

 

[Danman1]

... Cocaine?

Why would I take cocaine? I don't smoke, drink or do drugs anyway. I didn't mean "coke" as a slang for cocaine, I meant coca-cola, you know, sugar stuffed bad-for-you-but-tasty that most teens drink.

Look, I don't know what street aliases kids are giving to their drugs these days, but even if the police don't catch you with your "coca-cola", you can suffer some serious long-term health problems. I can see I'm probably not going to convince you to give up hard drugs, but remember, cocaine can be lethal if mixed with all of the ecstasy, heroine, and meth you are no-doubt abusing.

Either you're trolling, or you're the biggest dweeb this side of Star Trek.

Coca-cola is a soft drink, soda, pop, whatever you want to call it, and you're a dumbfuck - it had cocaine in it at one point in time, but there has been no cocaine in coca-cola for over 60 years now.

You seriously don't get that?

He's trollin'. Ignore it.

 

[Aur0ra145]

In high school I never skipped school, did well in grades. Freshman year of college, never skipped school, had awesome grades. Sophomore year of college, skipped a few, grades declined a tad. Junior year of college, skipped a lot of classes, grades were pretty good (because of how the classes grading structure were made.) Senior year of college (what I'm at currently,) never skipped a single class (except for field training,) and I've gotten phenomenal grades (due to the fact, I'm there and I am taking classes that I want to take, not college requisite classes.)

So. It's okay to skip every once in a while. But keep abreast of your work, don't fall behind, because it's next to impossible to catch up depending on the class.

 

[SmilingKitsune]

There was a period when I was in my early teens when I would skip school relatively frequently, we has just moved to Sweden and my school was pretty terrible.
Sometimes I used to just ride the underground out to the end of the line and back.
Of course I wouldn't endorse it.

 

[Infinatex]

Yep why not. I used to do it all the time. It was just so hard to go, especially once I got my car! I did well enough to pass too.

 

[Brnin8]

I feel that it is usually wrong, but there is one time when I have absolutely no problem with.
If its a shortened day right before a break, nothing will get done anyway, so just skip it.

 

[Phoenix09215]

Back in the days of secondary school I skipped basically ever half day we had because it was basically just an assembly then home. However, now i'm in college I don;t skip full days but I do skip the odd lesson here and there. But, its always because I have to finish work for other lessons...

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

As long as you keep your grades up and learn the course material skipping is no problem. I've missed lots of classes this semester but I still have about an 84 average and I know everything I should. Skipping isn't a bad thing at all.

 

[dudycat1]

i regully skip maths class because im bad at it and everyone in my class is a chav who is destined for and epic carrea in mac donalds i can get more done just using my maths revision book i enjoy most over lessons though exept from RE

Please tell me you are going to your English classes though.

OT: The only class I skip is Japanese, because the college curriculum is the exact same one that I had at my high school. I thought it would go faster and that halfway through the semester I would learn new things, but it's actually slower than high school and I wished I tested out of it.

i go to english because im awsome at it and science to if im going in that direction

 

[bak00777]

occasionally if u have a good reason. My parents let me skip school because i went to see the Ironman 2 premier, they let me skip the day after the 2nd WoW expac came out, they let me skip other times too, but more often in the last 2 yrs of highschool, because my grades were good and i didnt ask alot. I didnt even try to stay home when sick(if i was rly sick i would, but if it was just a cold or something i would just take medicine and go to school).

 

[vodkainferno]

I've skipped school once, and that was with my parents consent.
Didn't do a final project, so I buckled down and did it that day

OT: Most of the time, its wrong to, like just to dick around. But if you have a loved one in the hospital, or lets say, didn't do a final project... then yea, I wouldn't care.
Just don't do it to much.

Edit: OH, and I skipped another to go to a local theater to watch a production of Les Miserables. Let me just say I'm glad my parents felt getting cultured was important.

 

[Dystopia]

I skipped a few when I was in college (but usually only to do unfinished homework).

Skipped loads during university. For one module, I only went to the first lecture and the final exam, and got a First

 

[[.redacted]]

Completely depends:

1): Arrrrgh, cba school, who needs qualifications anyway? = WRONG

2): Finally after a long time, we've finally managed to book a small gig for our band - but it's on Monday... = RIGHT

Use common sense, some things are just more important than 1 day of school, but very few things are more important than school as a whole: don't fall behind.

 

[TehCookie]

i regully skip maths class because im bad at it and everyone in my class is a chav who is destined for and epic carrea in mac donalds i can get more done just using my maths revision book i enjoy most over lessons though exept from RE

Please tell me you are going to your English classes though.

OT: The only class I skip is Japanese, because the college curriculum is the exact same one that I had at my high school. I thought it would go faster and that halfway through the semester I would learn new things, but it's actually slower than high school and I wished I tested out of it.

i go to english because im awsome at it and science to if im going in that direction

Then please have some forum etiquette and type in proper English.

 

[Red Right Hand]

Yeah, a whole day is alright once in a while, but there are also some completely useless periods that we were supposed to go to. So, we would just get a toke instead. Time well spent methinks, considering the fact that we all did alright at school and are all now in higher education. So yeah, if you can actually handle not learning the stuff in the classes that you miss then I think it's totally fine.

 

[varulfic]

I skipped so much school when I was younger, it was insane. I have no regrets.

 

[Kryzantine]

I only skip it if I had a good excuse. For instance, being legitimately sick.

Which reminds me, I haven't skipped school in forever. There were multiple days this term where I was really sick and would have benefited greatly from a health perspective by skipping school, but I didn't because I needed to work on my woodworking project. Sucks, but it's for my grade. I just wish I wasn't in a class where taking a day off could mean losing 12% of your grade (our final project, which I'm working on now, is 60% of our grade and is on a grading scale, which means one day could be the difference between finishing and not finishing, and the difference between a 90 and a 70).

I don't skip school mostly because I need my grade, but I don't mind people that take sick days (because I know how much it helps, I averaged 2 sick days a month earlier this year and it boosted my grades tremendously).

 

[Drakane]

I did it in HS some, college.. if you can keep up w/ the work screw class

 

[Ekonk]

I think it's okay.

But if it starts to get excessive it isn't really that smart a thing to do.

 

[Scout Tactical]

... Cocaine?

Why would I take cocaine? I don't smoke, drink or do drugs anyway. I didn't mean "coke" as a slang for cocaine, I meant coca-cola, you know, sugar stuffed bad-for-you-but-tasty that most teens drink.

Look, I don't know what street aliases kids are giving to their drugs these days, but even if the police don't catch you with your "coca-cola", you can suffer some serious long-term health problems. I can see I'm probably not going to convince you to give up hard drugs, but remember, cocaine can be lethal if mixed with all of the ecstasy, heroine, and meth you are no-doubt abusing.

Either you're trolling, or you're the biggest dweeb this side of Star Trek.

Coca-cola is a soft drink, soda, pop, whatever you want to call it, and you're a dumbfuck - it had cocaine in it at one point in time, but there has been no cocaine in coca-cola for over 60 years now.

One of the things I miss most about 4chan is that it is perfectly acceptable to just post a reaction image of, say, a facepalm, and go on without further explanation.

Yes. I am making a joke. No, this is not trolling, because it has humorous intent, not the intent of making anyone angry. If you'd taken the time to examine my profile, you'd notice I'm from the United States. There is essentially no way to live in the US and not know what Coca-Cola is.

So consider holding off on calling people a "dumbfuck" until after you can get the most simple, unsubtle types of humor. Seriously, I even added a wink to the end. How non-serious do I have to make this?