<p>When i was just a silly freshman (2 months ago basically), and I screwed up reading my schedule, I went all the way to the fourth floor of our school's "main building" when i really should have been across the street on the second floor of another building. So, when i arrived at the class I was supposed to be at, the teacher asked why i was "severly" late, I said i recieved a new schedule all of a sudden, and then she signed my schedule for some reason...</p>
<p>My Spanish teacher, I LOVED that guy.
But he was like "Fred, people's grade suffer when they aren't in classes." (He calls me Fred.)
But he took away 10 points from my Spanish average (Thank lord I had a 99, went to a 89, therefore rounded to a 90.)
He was pretty generous since he didn't mark me cutting or anything.</p>
<p>I'm not trying to be bad ass or anything, but I start class at 8, I have to get up at 5:30 and classes end at 3:35, EC's end at 6, get home at 7, homework till 1 in the morning, wash and repeat.
I'm just really burnt out sometimes.</p>
<p>I hate when you really get along with a teacher and you're obviously the best in class but then they grade you down because they think you're not "living up to your potential." -- when the f**k was a class about potential? I thought it was supposed to be about test grades and participation. meh.</p>
<p>Sorry, but your spanish teacher just reminded me of teachers like that. And I've had a couple. A$$holes.</p>
<p>Oh man, Nixxi, you have my sympathy. Our school is so lax about these things, probably because if they try to enforce anything they'll **** off a student who will complain to mommy and daddy who will then harass the school to no end.</p>
<p>Punishment for the 1st cut (and 2nd and 3rd if the teacher doesn't report you) are at the teacher's discretion. I wouldn't know, I've never been caught. :P</p>
<p>I'm in chorus and we have weekly sectionals that we supposedly are excused from class for, provided we don't have a test. The teachers dont have the sectional schedule, though, so you can claim to have one and just leave. The trick is to not have sectionals too much, or the teacher gets suspicious.</p>
<p>Doctor's notes are really easy to forge. (To whom it may concern: Please excuse my daughter, she has a doctor's appointment at 11:45...) </p>
<p>I don't really like lying to certain teachers, though. My French class was 9th period and HORRIBLY behaved. They mocked my teacher to his face, wouldn't listen, didn't do the work, etc. I was one of two students who was actually polite-- but that didn't stop me from cutting almost weekly (I had good excuses so I wouldn't make the teacher feel even worse that I wasn't even coming to his class). One day I had a friend forge a note and when I got up to leave class, he just let me go without even looking at the note. The other students questioned this, and he gave them this speech about how I was one of the few students that he trusted, and that he knew I was actually going to a doctor's appointment (The entire class, of course, was trying not to say "BULL*****!"). I felt really, really bad after this, especially because I was cutting so I could go shoe shopping.</p>
<p>This thread brings back memories of high schoool...</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure I got every single one of you beat. First semester of my last year of high school, I cut classes so much my that my school threatened to take away my credits (and 90-ish average) making it impossible for me to graduate. Beyond just flat out not going to school, my more creative methods were: Coming to class handing in assignments and then walking out. Only staying in class to do tests. Coming to class late, being sent down to get late slip and then just walking out of school and my personal favourite, coming to class checking off my name on the attendance list and then leaving. First semester alone for History class, I skipped something like 30 times. They gave me a warning but didn't kick me out because I was still getting decent grades (nothing amazing, but good), plus this school was going down the crapper and needed all the high grades they good get to bring up the average.</p>
<p>I smartened up second semester, dropped out and decided to go to school part time and work full time the rest of the day. I eventually got enough credits to get my diploma and my average was high enough to get me into a good school.</p>
<p>Let's see... I haven't cut much, but that's definitely going to change next (SENIOR!) year.</p>
<p>-doctor's notes to come to school late/leave early. they never call, so a note + forged signature will suffice. same with skipping out on gym. "he's not feeling well today" or something is good enough.</p>
<p>-go to the nurse and tell them you were up all night finishing a paper or studying for a test, or that you're feeling dizzy or nautious and need some time off. they let you lie down for as long as you want. it helps if you fall asleep so they can't ask you about your symptoms.</p>
<p>-"go to the bathroom" for 20 minutes. i've gotten away with it multiple times. especially if you're like in science class and you're in the middle of a lab and the teacher can't watch everyone at the same time. if they ask for an excuse beyond "i really, really, REALLY had to go" then talk about how all the closest bathrooms are locked and you it took you a while to find an open one.</p>
<p>-it's incredibly easy to cut when we have subs. except then there's not much reason to leave cause you just sit around and chill anyway, and subs can never enforce anything.</p>
<p>-to cut first period, just stay in the library or something until a couple minutes before first period ends, then go to the attendance office and say you just got to school cause you woke up late. they don't require a note or call anyone.</p>
<p>-once i had to hand something into the guidance office in the middle of a class. i asked to go to the bathroom and went to the guidance office. there, i took about 20 minutes longer than i anticipated, so i asked the guidance secretary to a pass back to my class. she didn't ask why i was there in the middle of class or why i didn't have a pass to get there. i told my teacher i just ran into my guidance counselor, who pulled me into her office about something urgent.</p>
<p>-i LOVE ap test weeks! you can get away with anything. the easiest days are when you have an exam in the morning only. our tests are scheduled to end during lunch, but we're always, ALWAYS late because we take a long time and the buses (we take our exams in a building a few miles away) are never on time. you can easily cut two extra periods. last year after one of my exams i drove home with a friend, watched some tv and ate lunch, and went back to school for the last 5 minutes of class, claiming that testing took longer than anticipated. luckily nobody else in my class was at the morning exam, or i would've been screwed.</p>
<p>i had over 60 absences my senior year which were all excused. Im still going to UCI</p>
<p>(Enn- "they think you're not 'living up to your potential.' -- when the f**k was a class about potential?" hahaa agreed, I hate that.) </p>
<p>Until second semester junior year (last year) I had never ditched class, only two times since.
-I was off campus at lunch with my boyfriend and a bunch of his friends. I was the only one who had to get back to class (guhh seniors) so we ate at some sit-down place that took forever. I was starving so just didn't go back for my last class.
-The next time was even more lame. A friend and I were finishing (and starting :/ ) a major paper that had to be submitted online that morning by school's start. We got it in just in time, but she lives like 20 mins. from school so we didn't go to 1st period (100mins long). </p>
<p>I get in enough sticky situations outside of school, I need one thing to run semi-smoothly... </p>
<p>Although I've hardly missed class completely, I was probably late to my 1st class just about every day last year (no joke). In the beginning it was sort of ok because my shoulder was messed up from soccer and each morning I had to spend over 30mins putting stuff of it and then attempt to drive slowly to school with my arm in a sling. Once better, I was still stuck in the habit all year, showing up as much as 35mins late. Just about everyone knows me for my lack of punctuality now. The teacher said something to me once, maybe twice. </p>
<p>I guess I miss a lot for soccer and other stuff though- 13, 12, 9, 9, 8, and 12 absences second semester in classes 1-6. 73 total, yeaa!
-We're supposed to be dropped from class after 7 in it (can appeal if we want).. I never had any trouble :)</p>
<p>Hahaa good story though-
1st grade: each day after lunch we had a different teacher who would go over the abslotute dumbest stuff in the world for about an hour. Being the genius that I am (or was rather), I'd say I wasn't feeling well, she'd feel my forehead and it would be all hot, as I had just finished playing outside, so I'd go to the nurse and my mom (who totally knew and understood) would come pick me up. That happened a few times a week. Awesome.</p>
<p>hehe, some of these stories are hilarious!
I have never skipped class, but occasionally i tell my mum "I feel really tired this morning, schools has been stressing me out" etc, or something like that and she feels all sorry for me (she gets worried about me being too busy, so its easy) and lets me stay home.
Normally its fine, but one day the Assistant in charge of Absentees (no, not attendances "absentees") called home, becuase my mum had forgotten to call up, i answered the phone how i normally do quite sing-songy "Hello, Claudia Speaking" and she goes
"Hello Claudia, this is Ms, X, i was wondering if your parents are there, you arnt at school today" (duh),I said, "yeah, i think my mum called you up?, im not feeling very good, i have a bad cold" and she goes 'Well, i will call her mobile, but in future remember to call before 9am, get better soon"
The ENTIRE time you could tell she din't trust me and i got really annoyed, because it was one of the times i actually was ill.
hehe.</p>
<p>haha yeah "feminine issues." One reason why I pity young and single male teachers.</p>
<p>and I have to agree, AP weeks are the best- I basically go to school like 5 times in 2 weeks!</p>
<p>LOL.</p>
<p>I JUST remembered this but at Bronx Science they used to have a list of the top twenty biggest cutters and would post it all over the school. They stopped doing that after people started to become proud of it. </p>
<p>The biggest eff up in my school? This guy named Peter Philips on the debate team. His admission into Columbia got taken away because of his poor grades, which were from excessive class cutting. When he barely graduated (a 65.000%) he had accumulated a little booklet of cuts. That's amazing seeing that you can fit 100 cuts on one page.</p>
<p>My parents let me stay home once in a while, too. It happened 2 or 3 times junior year. Damn, I was such a good student until last year...</p>
<p>As far as cutting class, i've only really done it once in high school. It was yearbook pictures, and you just stay in the gymnasium until you've taken all your club pictures. if your in clubs that go all the way to "y" (yearbook, etc.) then basically you'll miss two class periods (well at least that day it was shortened periods due to early release). So I just stayed there and talked to people so I could miss biology.</p>
<p>"The biggest eff up in my school? This guy named Peter Philips on the debate team. His admission into Columbia got taken away because of his poor grades, which were from excessive class cutting. When he barely graduated (a 65.000%) he had accumulated a little booklet of cuts. That's amazing seeing that you can fit 100 cuts on one page."</p>
<p>Those people are the best. The ones who are completely capable of getting into good schools but choose not to. I always run into at least one or two from my high school when I'm back in town. Conversations tend to go like this:</p>
<p>"Hey buddy, long time. Heard you got into ___<strong><em>, how is it?"
"Nah man, I'm working now"
"No s</em></strong>t, where?"
"The [factory, grocery store, meat packing plant, etc.]"
"Cool, I'm still going to school, got into McGill with some grants"
"Wow man, good for you I always thought you gave up on school, you skipped more than I did in our last year"
"Nah, remember how I always handed in assignments and did the tests? It's all about timing man." [School doesn't dock marks for skipping classes]
"I don't know how you did it but good on ya buddy. Going to school is a lot better than doing the s---t I'm doing."</p>
<p>I have a really great job (a real one too haha) and it's sort of my dream job (or rather will be when I get promoted to editor) but I never considered dropping out of school to work. I don't want to miss the whole 'college experience' ****. Although I do go to uni. here and I can't wait to go to a 'real' college in the states.</p>
<p>I skipped once and just told them i was so tired that i needed some sleep so i went somewhere to sleep but a period....i didnt get in trouble</p>
<p>Hmm. The closest I've ever come to cutting classes was 1. taking my time walking back to school after an AP exam and 2. scheduling a meeting with my counselor for a day and period that I had a presentation due that I hadn't done. (My teacher never mentioned it to me, though. Hmmm.)</p>
<p>My school is different, we have to make up our own schedule every day because we don't follow an organized class schedule. For example for the 5 periods we have every day I could choose to go to English 4th period and choose Math 3rd or whatever. Since we only sign in with our Teacher Advisors 3 times a day and we don't really have to be in a certain class each period we could easily cut classes because we aren't expected anywhere. We choose our own academic path. Most students take advantage of this because it is so easy to cut class, I used to do it a lot but I don't do it like that anymore. Now it's about being in class and working. But if my Teacher Advisor caught that I didn't sign in after school then he would ask me where I was and demand a note. I just told him I was buying milkshakes downstairs and forgot, then I would get a long lecture.</p>
<p>The one time I skipped class I got caught. It takes my school about a week to punish people so I thought of an elaborate excuse during that time. I simply told my principal that I had diarrhea and the school bathrooms were too gross to use. I expected the excuse to work but I didn't expect my principal's response. It was along the lines of "tons of kids have this problem; next time just come tell me and I will let you leave". Needless to say I was a little suprised. But what's more important is that I didn't get into any trouble.</p>
<p>At my school, it is easy to skip class, & hard.. at the same time. It pretty much depends on the teacher. but what i do is like in between bells ... i will leave.. then i will come back with some time left(10-15mins) in the period & then go to the guidance counsoler & just get a pass.
The reason it is hard is because if you want to be tardy.. like if i wouldnt finish something the night before i would go to the library & finish it during second bell , then just go to the attendance office & say i was late & fake a note.. but if youre tardy more than like 10 times.. even if you have a note from your parents, you have to get a doctors note like every time after that. that is what really sucks .
plus we have like 300 cameras in our whole school & theres always someone in the security office & always ppl roaming through the halls.</p>