<p>Ever take one? How do you convince your parents its necessary?</p>
<p>Never heard of it. I bet I could because I have generalized anxiety disorder and I could just tell my parents that the stress is getting too high. I wouldn’t do it though because my house is pretty boring</p>
<p>I just feel like right now I need a day off to catchup on work, and just relax. Everything at school is crazy.
Meh, there’s only a month left, gonna try to sweat it out i guess</p>
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<p>mutually exclusive,
if you spend the day feeling guilty about having to catch up on work
you won’t be able to relax
i vote for just relaxing and forgetting about work,
then you’ll be able to perform better later</p>
<p>and i used to take days off in high school all the time to finish up assignments
it wasn’t very fun but i felt i had to
and usually my parents would call in sick for me because they’d know what i had due</p>
<p>yep. taken only one through high school (so far) and it is pretty good. </p>
<p>just tell them that you need to do something important (like paper, homework, so on and so forth) and they will buy it most likely. besides, i used the day to study for SAT II’s and catch up on homework, but you can always use it as a day to unwind and just relax!</p>
<p>I’m taking one today.
Actually, going to school today would be very easy. I only have three classes on Wednesday. The first two, I don’t technically have to come anymore because I’ve taken the IB tests and am done. The last one is a class of two people, we haven’t really been doing that much, so we decided to meet up with the teacher for lunch.
I just decided to stay home because I can be more productive studying for my IB math test that is tomorrow here than at school.</p>
<p>Typically, I couldn’t have asked to take a mental health day. I would have had to demand it and have very good reasoning. I have parents who don’t let a person miss the last day of school.</p>
<p>I am a parent; every year, at some point before finals (late May, early June) I have had each of my kids take a “mental health day”…no schoolwork allowed from 8:00am-5:00 pm… I leave it up to each what they would like to do on their day…</p>
<p>We stopped doing this since they are both home for summers; it was more important when they both left for most of the summer two days after school ended…</p>
<p>I’ve taken three “mental health” days this school year to just catch up on sleep and relax without worry. My mom is quite lax on letting me stay home, so I usually don’t have to do much convincing.</p>
<p>I’ve taken like 5 this year.</p>
<p>They’re really nice. But I only take them when I know I will not miss anything important in any class but have work to do, or am just too damn tired.</p>
<p>I’m totally against perfect attendance and having parents make you go to school if you really shouldn’t.</p>
<p>I don’t know about mental health days but I’ve stayed home from 2nd and 3rd bell quite a few times (I don’t have 1st bell). I like my afternoon classes a lot, so I don’t find them stressful.</p>
<p>I am a complete advocate of mental health days. Teachers take personal days, so why not students? Also,the human body needs sleep to program, stimulants only work to a certain degree. Without sleep, we’re useless and crabby. I personally take one mental health day per quarter, I tend to favor Friday mental health afternoons.</p>
<p>I always end up taking one the monday after musical
its great to just sleep, watch TV, and just relax
a good breather</p>
<p>I always want to do that, but I always have stuff to do. Either test, quizzes, presentations, labs, major reviews for test. Every day there is stuff which is complicated to miss. Like at the begining of the 6th weeks, I have lots of new material to learn in every class, which if I miss that day I have 7 homework assignments and/or classwork to make up. So basically I would just get more behind and end up just going to school.</p>
<p>Ive had a few days this school year were I could miss and not have to make up too much stuff, but then I think ‘well I wont really have to think that much in school today, so why not go?’</p>
<p>aken too many, but they’re always enjoyable. I want to take one tomorrow. I don’t think I will though.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I really don’t care, I haven’t missed a day for being sick, but I’ve gone on trips and stuff. One of my friends is obsessed with perfect attendance and some of my other friends think that senior year, we should kidnap until him 8:01 and then let him go. </p>
<p>I’ve never taken a mental health day, but I’ll probably take one or two next year, but I really don’t want to miss too much and have to make it up.</p>
<p>See at my school, the worst part about mental health days is not the fact that you’ve missed “valuable” class lessons but rather, if it’s a gym day you have to make up the gym class. So if you’re legitimately sick, you have to make the decision between going to school sick, or waiting till the end of the marking period and going to school at 6:45 am to exercise for 1/2 hour. Soo absurd.</p>