Skipping school

[lihpster]

There was a man who had reached the age of 113. When he was asked what he attributed it to, he said his strict diet of 3 gallons of red wine a week, fried bread and fatback. When asked why fatback he replied, "Cuz bacon is too lean."
Some people are just tougher than woodpecker lips. Some people are fragile. Diet just doesn't mean as much to them as it does to most people.

 

[martyd]

I went to a private boarding school - no skipping class!

Skipping school was classified as 'Running Away' now Police were involved, not a good thing when parents found out - as my friend found out.

 

[LostintheOzone]

The one time I remember was a friend and I were on our way to the city center walking and a cop stopped us. He asked us if we shouldn't be on campus. Of course he knew we should have been, gave us a ride back and delivered us to the principles office. That didn't work out real well when I got home. My mom went into low orbit. That was the last time that happened.

That was back in the 60's in AZ when you could take a note to school to be excused for the first day of deer season. That was legit.

I graduated and found out later that diploma helped me enlist in the Navy before I got the all expenses paid vacation in Vietnam.

 

[GypsmJim]

My Dad quit school early 1941. On 12/8/41 he joined the Navy. God bless him he came home.

I never skipped school because Dad would have killed me if he found out. Not getting his High School diploma haunted him for years.

I was in the class of 1967. This was the 5th graduating class ever from my school. So, there were only a few before us. Some of had secretly planned to do something bad right at the end. A few days before the last day of school, the Principal came on the PA, and sadly told us that one of our predecessors, the first one, had been killed in Vietnam. Kinda hampered our plans.

We all grew up.

 

[oldbrownhat]

When I saw the title of this thread, my first thought was, "Good grief - they're teaching SKIPPING in schools now? No wonder many of my gf's university biology students are floundering!"

 

[delcrossv]

My high school had a computerized attendance program (punch cards)- that dates me. So I took computer science junior year and added a little subroutine to the attendance program: If student number=XXXXX, value present/absent = present.

I recall missing about 120 days senior year- only showed up for tests.

Good times.

 

[oldbrownhat]

...Some people are just tougher than woodpecker lips....

Love that expression

Reminds me of a story our office manager told me when I was working in my dad's office in the summers. The office manager had worked up in the Yukon in the 1930's and one of the guys in the camp got appendicitis. The doc had some of that new-fangled antibiotic powder so he operated, threw some powder in, sewed him back up and hoped for the best. Three days later the guy was playing pool.

 

[Harmonica]

..I and a friend would throw our bag lunches over a fence and walk down to the fast food chicken place and get a 1 piece meal ...of course, I never thought this was a ''bad'' thing to do ..I guess I was in 7th or 8th grade

 

[rubiranch]

I was kicked out of high school my senior year 6 weeks prior to
graduating with the class of 1973 and told if I was caught on
school property they would have me arrested for trespassing.

Yep, you guessed it. I was not an honor student.

I was one of only 6 out of over 850 students that did not graduate
that year.

I did take night classes and graduated one year later and went to
a community college.

 

[messmergreen]

I skipped school only once, together with the whole class. My parents were not angry at me, they had some laughs instead. Besides school i had couple of different side courses, like guitar lessons and language course. Didn't like last one much and skipped it a lot. Now i need to use translation services all the time https://pickwritеrs.com/ and honestly regret a little about those decision. I had opportunity to learn a new language and just didn't use it.

 

[LVSteve]

I was kicked out of high school my senior year 6 weeks prior to
graduating with the class of 1973 and told if I was caught on
school property they would have me arrested for trespassing.

Yep, you guessed it. I was not an honor student.

One big offense or did you treat them to the death of a thousand cuts?

 

[rubiranch]

One big offense or did you treat them to the death of a thousand cuts?

Yes, I tortured them.

 

[hemiram]

A friend of mine had a real, well, really bad stepdad who convinced his mom to send him to military school, he just wanted him gone. When he got there, he refused to do anything at all. He sat there in the main office until the, as he put it, "Kommandant" told some of the other students to take him to the shower and "convince him to cooperate". After he severely beat several of the other students up, he got to a phone and called 911. The police came and were told he was just a student who had "an attitude problem". He then punched the "Kommandant" in the nose in front of the cops and they ended up taking him away. He was home in a few days, and stepdad was soon sent packing when his mom found out that he had been stealing her jewelry and replacing the diamonds with cheap fakes. Stepdad #2 soon came into the pic, and he was a great guy and my friend now runs the company with his half brother since the stepdad died in 2018.

 

[Drm50]

I didn’t skip a lot maybe 1/2 dozen times a year. Most were gang activities.
We would knock off a nice day in the spring and go fishing down the river.
That was walking, when got drivers license we would head for the lake. The other times it would be to go hunting. Don’t remember ever just skipping to goof off, we always had a mission.
I did have my own chair in principles office. Back then there were a lot of teachers with no sense of humor.