I listen to radio and it said if you skip certain number of school days a year, likelihood of graduation is going down.
What is the common reason a hs kid like to skip school?
For me, I had a rough year and had to take off school for mental-related illnesses and days where I just needed to sleep, along with regular illnesses, this year, I probably missed 20-21 days. Common reasons can be not finishing a big assignment and needing an extra day, just not wanting to go, or big events in their life taking precedence.
Uh, when you have a Calc BC midterm and you forgot that it was on for today?
My likelihood of skipping a class increased dramatically if the weather was nice.
If I’m tired and want to sleep.
how many days a year we are talking about? So some are not staying home but go elsewhere? interesting.
Many skip because they procrastinated too much and didn’t do the assignment on time or didn’t study for the test.
Throughout my HS career, I’ve never skipped a day of school or any of my classes. I’m still graduating with that 4.0.
procrastination only make grades worse. I think student athletes may have the issue.
There is the one occasion, especially when you have a gazillion AP classes, where midterms all fall on the same day. It’s a way of spacing out things.
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School districts set requirements for graduation, including the minimum number of days a student must be in school. So if you skip more than that number of days, you may be denied graduation.
Some kids skip school because they hate school, or aren’t challenged enough.
Some kids skip school because they are rebellious teenagers who don’t understand the only person they are hurting is themselves.
Some kids skip school when they need a mental health day.
Some kids get pulled out of school to go on family vacations.
The only time my kids skipped school was if they had a specific demand on them that caused them to be too tired to safely drive to school - for example an extracurricular from which they got back late at night, or after a huge project was due. But then technically it wasn’t skipping, since I wrote them a note. It was actually an excused absence. They always had stellar grades so I was happy to allow them a break now and then.
Oh, and one other time when S was invited to a major collegiate basketball game and got home quite late. To me, that was a valid reason to sleep in.
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When I was in high school I was bored to tears. Every now and then we’d skip and go into the city for the day. I was a top student so there really weren’t any ramifications.
^ My parents don’t care if I take a day off to relax so long as I don’t have behavioral issues and pass my classes.
In my Catholic high school, it is absolutely NOT common.
I sometimes take a day off to work on homework and get some sleep if I know I won’t be doing anything important at school. A lot of kids skip just because they don’t like school or they don’t want to take a test. It’s pretty common at my school to skip for those reasons.
Most often, I stayed home to finish work or study for an exam. There were days I wanted to skip just because school was school, but I never did.
Not in my kids’ school. If you didn’t go to school for at least 5 of the 7 periods, you didn’t practice, you didn’t play, you didn’t board the bus. Not only for sports, but for all ECs. And the school checked. I’ve seen the athletic director pull kids off the field, court, track or whatever. No excuse was accepted, even documented dentist or doctor appointments.
At our school, if you were not in attendance at school the day of an EC activities (any EC activity…sports, music, robotics, anything) you were not allowed to participate. For some if you missed too many rehearsals or practices, you were not allowed to participate in the next event.
School also had a maximum allowed days of absence. If you exceeded that amount, you ran the risk of failing the courses.
One of my kids missed 20 days of school his senior year for music festivals and college music auditions. He had to request that these absences be excused because otherwise, he would have NOT graduated. That 20 absences far exceeded the allowed amount for the year.
We let our younger kid take one day off school in October of her senior year. It was to complete the University of South Carolina honors college application…which is a doozie. She missed no other days…she was the kid who was annoyed when they did away with the “perfect attendance” awards.
To the OP…why are you asking? In my opinion, you should be at school unless you are ill or have a very good reason for being absent.
cant skip at my school because they do online attendance for each class period and if youre there for 1st period and you’re gone 2nd, they know you skipped and u get a write up.
Depends on the circumstances.
I skip sometimes on days that I know we are not doing anything, or if I need to catch up on stuff. If you’re going to skip however, make sure you know what you are doing on the day you plan to skip on, so that you don’t miss out on too much. I don’t recommend skipping all the time or for a week straight with no excuse, but a couple days in the school year won’t hurt you.
Technically, my district allows 9 absences per semester in each class. That number doesn’t include absences due to approved field trips or other school activities. During my 4 years of high school, my absences during the spring semester ranged between 10 and 14, sometimes getting as high as 16 in certain classes. During fall semester, it was lower, maybe 6 or 7, depending on the class. The reason? Ski racing and doc appointments. (I race with a club team that is not sanctioned by my school, district, or state high school athletics association.) However, the decision to pull credit is left to one’s vice principal, and my cumulative unweighted 4.0 with 12 AP classes made him decide my education was not at risk.