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Did you ever cut class in school?

Did you ever cut class in school?

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radcen said:
In my school, and this was 30 years ago, every class took attendance for their own internal class records, but it was only 2nd period that was sent to the front office and compiled into an overall list. Nobody ever cross-checked unless you happened to get caught, which was rare.
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when I was teaching, the kids who cut my class were usually the trouble-makers and pains in the ass that I didn't want in class anyway. marked them absent, gave them a zero for the day and went about teaching the kids who actually gave a damn. If on any given day, if there were more than a couple of "skippers" missing from class, I'd give a pop quiz at the end of class consisting of 2 or 3 very very easy questions from the material covered and count it as a test grade.
 
radcen said:
Did you ever cut class in school?

K-12
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K-12, no.

College, you bet. Sometimes just because I didn't feel like leaving the radio station in the morning.
 
OscarB63 said:
when I was teaching, the kids who cut my class were usually the trouble-makers and pains in the ass that I didn't want in class anyway. marked them absent, gave them a zero for the day and went about teaching the kids who actually gave a damn. If on any given day, if there were more than a couple of "skippers" missing from class, I'd give a pop quiz at the end of class consisting of 2 or 3 very very easy questions from the material covered and count it as a test grade.
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This the way I feel it should be for college. You're an adult now.

I'm good with this pretty much for high school. What you describe I have no issue with. You're "in training" to be an adult.
 
radcen said:
In my school, and this was 30 years ago, every class took attendance for their own internal class records, but it was only 2nd period that was sent to the front office and compiled into an overall list. Nobody ever cross-checked unless you happened to get caught, which was rare.
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Must've been nice back then. Every class period we had attendance submitted on the computer and instantly crosschecked.
 
Anagram said:
Must've been nice back then. Every class period we had attendance submitted on the computer and instantly crosschecked.
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Yeah, I went to school 30 years ago too and every class checked attendance and every teacher had someone run the list up to the office immediately every day. If you failed to show up to two classes in a row, your parents were called right away.
 
AlabamaPaul said:
I only cut my senior hear in HS after missing about half my junior year. My parents found a HS that allowed me to graduate in six weeks with only a requirement for an English research paper..
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My parents didn't care enough about me - they alway assumed I was good and did what I was supposed to.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
My parents didn't care enough about me - they alway assumed I was good and did what I was supposed to.
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They were gonna care about you...but then they got high ;)
 
radcen said:
Did you ever cut class in school?

K-12
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Mostly grade 12. I had more than enough credits to graduate with a decent 3.9 average. It dropped to 3.7 because of the classes I skipped so much.

Outside of the year usually no more than 2-3 year.
 
Anagram said:
No, but nobody did at my school. It wasn't really possible, with them notifying the parents if you weren't in class every class.

In college so far I've cut some classes when I knew I could do well without going.
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Heck, I passed one of my lower level philosophy classes by telling the teacher that I was a recovering alcoholic who had fallen off the wagon. I figured it was a better choice than telling him that he was an idiot.
 
Lutherf said:
Heck, I passed one of my lower level philosophy classes by telling the teacher that I was a recovering alcoholic who had fallen off the wagon. I figured it was a better choice than telling him that he was an idiot.
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I hate to admit that I took advantage of my 'husband's deployed, it's just me with 4 kids - boohoo' status. When really I was just happy to skip class sometimes and stay up late at night doing everything I shouldn't
 
OscarB63 said:
when I was teaching, the kids who cut my class were usually the trouble-makers and pains in the ass that I didn't want in class anyway. marked them absent, gave them a zero for the day and went about teaching the kids who actually gave a damn. If on any given day, if there were more than a couple of "skippers" missing from class, I'd give a pop quiz at the end of class consisting of 2 or 3 very very easy questions from the material covered and count it as a test grade.
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Why would you do something so mean and horrible?
 
radcen said:
Did you ever cut class in school?

K-12
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Yes and no. It's a long story, but during my senior year my band teacher cut a deal with the health teacher to get me out of health class so that I could continue taking band. The end result is that I wasn't on the band attendance roster, but was ostensibly obligated to be in band during fourth period (right before lunch). In practice, I frequently skipped out on that if I knew the band teacher was going to have a sub (which was common). So I cut class because I knew I could get away with it with zero repercussions. Somewhat ironically, the only time I ever got busted for skipping class was due to an excused absence (a choir performance off campus) which my choir teacher failed to communicate to the relevant bureaucracy.
 
Muhammed said:
Why would you do something so mean and horrible?
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to reward the kids who actually came to class and to punish those who couldn't seem to do what they were supposed to do.
 
Freshman and Senior year.

I really just left. Freshman I hitched a ride with a friendly senior and when I was one I just drove myself. I rarely went home, usually I just wandered around. I had a friend who would fill in for me (Say "Present" when roll was called and did my classwork.) Not really sure why, I just did.
 
Jredbaron96 said:
Freshman and Senior year.

I really just left. Freshman I hitched a ride with a friendly senior and when I was one I just drove myself. I rarely went home, usually I just wandered around. I had a friend who would fill in for me (Say "Present" when roll was called and did my classwork.) Not really sure why, I just did.
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are you in college now, and if so, are you still cutting classes
 
OscarB63 said:
to reward the kids who actually came to class and to punish those who couldn't seem to do what they were supposed to do.
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That's a huge problem with our education system. A lot of teachers think they are there to punish kids. They just get off on it.
 
Muhammed said:
That's a huge problem with our education system. A lot of teachers think they are there to punish kids. They just get off on it.
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yeah, I'm a horrible person for attaching negative consequences to bad behavior. I should be ashamed of myself
 
Muhammed said:
I agree.
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How many times do you ask your girlfriend to cut class, grampa? Since she's only 17, she's probably still in high school. Is that why you're busting Oscar's chops? Some big bad teacher put your girlfriend on detention because she skipped class to go play shuffleboard with you?
 
"Did you ever cut class in school?"

All the time. Faked illness, or resorted, reluctantly, to minor acts of hooliganism, to be suspended. Of course, that was in the 1970s, in the Soviet Russia, and I am not sure how relevant that may be to any American experience. Although, having spent some time as a volunteer tutor in Boston, at the "underprivileged" schools in the late 80s (there was a campaign of "academic patronage", later boosted by John Silber of BU) - I have a feeling there just may be some similarities.

The combination of crude indoctrination, useless rote learning and sheer mind-numbing boredom was unbearable. (I was fortunate to have decent teachers and school administrators who had managed to "displace" my firm "F" ("2", in that system) "behavior" record, by the time of final exams and university entry tests)
 
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