<p>A good chunk of the senior class will skip school on Senior Skip Day. Second semester no one really ditches because you can't have more than 3 absences in a class in order to be exempt from exams.</p>
<p>At my school, if you miss 3 class periods unexcused, you get a truancy letter. And if you get 3 truancy letters, you have to go to the district office and have a "mediation meeting". I 've already gotten 2 truancy letters and I think I'm getting my 3rd one soon. hahahahaa. </p>
<p>But the thing I'm most worried about is... do they take merit scholarships away because of this stuff?</p>
<p>if i ever ditched, my parents would KILL me. besides all my classes are important (mainly the AP's) and not being there for one day is too much to make up</p>
<p>ditching is overrated. I did it once in my old school (granted, it was sorta a day off - a half day to be exact - and no teachers showed up) but I couldn't find anything to do.</p>
<p>wow thats rough, your only allowed 3 absences? at my school they dont really care as much. i just get my parents to call me out so i dont get a cut.</p>
<p>I would never ditch. I'd miss way too much.</p>
<p>Once I "accidentally" ditched by sleeping through my lunch period and the following class.</p>
<p>I've been waiting for a snowday to save me lately. I could really use a mental health day, but then again, I've pretty much had a perfect attendance record since elementary school, and it's hard to break out of habit. Plus, my parents would kill me if I ever suggested skipping school to catch up on a sleep. In any case, I hate making up work, and with an AP-heavy courseload, it's hard not to miss something important.</p>
<p>I figured out that I could ditch gym 36 times and still pass. Isn't that awesome? And yes, I've used about 5 of those so far. I'm saving most of them for our swimming unit.</p>
<p>In my English class, if you were to blink you would miss a Chapter of Romeo and Juliet. If you went outside to drink some water from the fountain, you would miss the whole Great Expectations novel, plus the discussion and test afterwards. If you missed a day, you would miss all of the Nonfiction, Fiction, and Poetry Units, as well as the fourteen tests, nineteen essays, and thirty-six quizzes associated with the aforementioned.</p>
<p>how can u guys skip so much. we can only have 1 unexcused absense and 3 excused absence before we lose exam exemptions</p>
<p>I don't skip class often, but I have my days where I can't stand the thought of wasting away in french so I cut.</p>
<p>At my school, you get 2 unexcused absenses in a class, and then you have to take the final second semester senior year in that class if you have any more than that. But, there is no gym final; therefore, all I need to do is pass, and to do that, I only need to show up and participate for 54 out of 90 days.</p>
<p>That being said, you get a detention whenever you ditch, so 36 detentions isn't really worth it. The three times I ditched, I used the hour to study for a test or do homework. I found that my time was better spent studying for a class that actually counts, than spending an hour burning less calories than there are in a piece of sugarless gum.</p>
<p>I think there's such thing as intelligent ditching (btw, where in the country are the people who call it 'skipping' from? No one uses that word where I'm from), like getting work in advance and taking the day off. It takes me like an hour to make up my work and I don't have to waste the other seven hours of the school day feeling my brain melt.</p>
<p>pixiesticker: I'm in South Florida and no one says ditching. It's skipping. XD Which I've never done because I'd be slaughtered.</p>
<p>Wait, what exactly are "exam exemptions?" I take it that it means you don't have to take finals or something if you're at school a certain amount of time. Is that just for seniors 2nd semester, or for everyone?</p>
<p>We have nothing like that. You get 12 absences (total of excused and unexcused) each semester. Any more than that and you automatically fail, even if you have 100% in the class. You have to take the final no matter what.</p>