<p>I'm skipping class fri(tomorrow) to have the weekend to work on my term paper, even though its due on fri. Im going to get my absence excused so I won't get docked for it.. It seems to easy at my school, do you guys ever do this to get more time for papers???? Man my senioritis continues to get worse. Just wondering if im the only one</p>
<p>Uh, no....around here you have to get the paper to the teacher by e-mail if you are absent......</p>
<p>used to be absent day of math tests freshman year. Things have changed.</p>
<p>Depends on the teacher, but in general - NO.</p>
<p>One teacher told the class to have the ambulance stop by school, deliver the paper and then proceed to the hospital.</p>
<p>True story as told by APUSH teacher: Paper due at 8:00 am - no exceptions. When a student's car died a few blocks from school, the student abandoned her car for the moment and ran the rest of the way to school with paper in hand. (Probably would have done the same thing myself.)</p>
<p>...no that would hinder my turning in the paper..</p>
<p>Also I would've stayed up all night starting/finishing it anyway.</p>
<p>lol all the time. whenever i dont feel like doing a project i just skip the day or that class and turn it in late. i would never stay up all night doing a project for a class though...</p>
<p>ironically i haven't skipped a day for turning in a paper but i have for not doing the reading assignments (i procrastinate and then do it the day before which leads to me sleeping in past 2nd period...something i will never do in college..i hope lol)</p>
<p>I just went to class and didn't turn in a paper. I've gotten a lot of F's on English papers...</p>
<p>No, I've stayed up until 4 in the morning doing papers just so I can turn it in on time.</p>
<p>Wow, your parents allow you to skip because of your procrastination? Just a heads up, in college, this crap doesn't fly. I can sympathize with your senioritis, but wouldn't you rather have your weekend without this paper looming overhead. Just brew a pot of coffee, get yourself some brain food, and get it done.</p>
<p>Well, if you're only skipping that one class, won't the teacher see you in the hall during the day? Then when they ask for it what will you say? At my school, if you are in part of the day, most teachers expect you to stop by and hand in any assignments that are due in class.</p>
<p>Yeah, but our teachers are smart. Most give you a due date and grace days. If you're not there or you don't have it done you have about 3 days to turn it in. If it's not in on that last day then you get a 0. It's just the way it works. That way they say "No, it was due on the 4th (for example), today is the 7th. No excuses."</p>
<p>All the time up until the 6th grade haha</p>
<p>Nope, never. I don't know why anyone would want to (unless the paper is really long) - it's not that hard to write a paper, or to BS one.</p>
<p>Nope, we get docked points whether we were in class the due date or not. </p>
<p>"That's what the previous day is for."</p>
<p>My teachers require that the paper is turned in by that class period, or it's considered late. But I'm not sure how much they really care. They would probably be OK with it if they like the student. In the OP's case, that wouldn't be an issue since it isn't due yet.</p>
<p>i have stayed home because i had a paper due</p>
<p>Nope.</p>
<p>We have to turn in the paper no matter what, unless we're dead. Projects/major assignments are 30 points off the first day it's late.</p>
<p>Never. In fact, my English teacher says that if you can't turn in your essay, you have to email it to him or bring it to him some other time that day.</p>
<p>My friend, who is in Honors English, has (wait, an Honors English teacher allows students to skip class/school days for a paper, but a regular English teacher doesn't... what the...). For one paper, he skipped like two days. Personally, I call this pathetic. I'd like to say to him, "That's why they give you the assignment in advance."</p>
<p>hahaha. hand in a paper a day late with the excuse of being deathly sick and absent? laughable.
AP Lang--get your paper/project/assignment in that day or get a 0, your choice. stop by for 1 minute, make your parents, email it to a friend to hand it in for you, it doesnt matter, but it must be in her hands on that day. </p>
<p>on the other hand, I have skipped school to work on National History Day haha. And the day before APs sometimes--there's no point anyways we do nothing in class. And I think a couple times I've skipped to miss a physics or math test if I have a ton of stuff going on, don't understand the concepts, and can't learn it sufficiently from just a book.</p>
<p>I've also asked and received extensions on papers. Like last year I had a huge english research paper due and a math research paper due on the friday of the same week, an NHD competition, something like 4-5 tests around thurs-fri, and was sick for the last weekend and that monday. I asked and got an extension on my english paper which helped A LOT. Sometimes you just have to ask.</p>