Senior Skip Day

[Sandy321]

Senior skip days have been planned here - usually the Friday before Prom - in the paper one school admin was complaining that kids were taking another skip day! One mom was quoted as saying she made her son go to school, he sent her a picture showing only him in his math class -

and think how many of us pull our kids out of school to go to Disney (not everyone, and probably not most of the posters here that wouldnt agree to Senior Ditch Day)

 

[MoonFaerie]

Heck yes I skipped! It was the day we had Prom. I was busy getting my nails, hair & make-up done. My mom didn't have a problem with me skipping that day. I was graduating top of my class with a full scholarship to college. Over my entire high school experience, I missed a handful of days. Plus 2 months earlier my dad had passed away, and I stayed focused on my grades all through that. My mom was completely fine with me having a fun day.

 

[malibuconlee]

I didn't know where the party was, so I went to school. Skipped a couple of other days tho and my mom knew. Skipped once and drove 3 + hours to Six Flags in St. Louis for the day LOL That was fun with my friend Kelly!

On skip day those of us there got lots of extra credit for showing up to classes too

 

[FINFAN]

I went to mine ( everyone hit the woods to party) and fully expected my DD to partake in hers. She ended up heading in to school tho, and a good thing she did. Her Art Instructor decided that was the day she was collecting the portfolio submissions for AP credit! Kinda snarky move, as the cut off date was the following Monday...but DD turned it in and THEN left school, lol.
I'd put good $ on DS to cut next year.

 

[antmaril]

I graduated from high school in 1969! My mother called and told them I was sick on Senior Skip Day. She was cool. Paying it forward, I let my son skip in 2005!

 

[Donaldswife]

We had several senior "skip days" my senior year. My Mom knows about them now, but she didn't then.

We had a blast. One day we went to Old Indiana (a now closed, small amusement park north of Indianapolis), one time we went to Brown County Park and had a picnic and played volleyball by the lake, and another time we skipped for "Carb Day" at the Indy Motor Speedway. There was no one particular skip day, it was just a group of friends, myself, and my high school boyfriend (who was not even a senior, he was a junior! ) We were all honor students, active in school, and not trouble makers, just wanted to have some fun. We called in for each other, which was not difficult at all since the person answering the phones and taking absences in the office was a friend of ours......man, our school was so trusting! I wouldn't trade those day for anything, they were truly VERY happy times, and I hope my DD has the same opportunities when she is 18 and getting ready to graduate.

 

[minkydog]

I skipped. Here in Fl, we would go to the beach for the day. It was tradition. I told my mom that it was senior skip day and that we were going to the beach, she asked me who was driving and said that she would tell the school I was sick when they called.

If it is still around when my kids are seniors, I 100% would let them do it. It is no big deal and I really feel like it is a right of passage and yep, I would lie to the school and say they were sick.

Me too. When I was a senior I lived in Mobile County, AL. Our school tradition was to go down to Dauphin Island for the day. I asked my mom and she approved it. When the school called to find out where I was, she told them, "Heck yeah! She's at the beach with everyone else!" Not that I cared--I had a near 4.0GPA. I could have taken 2 weeks of skip days and it wouldn't have hurt me much.

They don't seem to have a skip day at DDs school. Honestly, they have kept them so busy with "Pajama Day" and "Dress like a little kid day" and "Goth Day", etc, that most of the seniors are showing up. We have 8 days of school left, but DD18 will finish up her finals in 4 days.

 

[MichelleVW]

They don't have an official skip day here, but they have fun activities planned pretty much the entire last week so there really isn't much school to skip.

I did let DD skip school a few weeks ago to go to a Rangers game during the day with DH.

 

[kim929]

As long as they are doing well in school I have no problem with them skipping on Sr skip day...

 

[Kae]

We had several senior "skip days" my senior year. My Mom knows about them now, but she didn't then.

We had a blast. One day we went to Old Indiana (a now closed, small amusement park north of Indianapolis), one time we went to Brown County Park and had a picnic and played volleyball by the lake, and another time we skipped for "Carb Day" at the Indy Motor Speedway. There was no one particular skip day, it was just a group of friends, myself, and my high school boyfriend (who was not even a senior, he was a junior! ) We were all honor students, active in school, and not trouble makers, just wanted to have some fun. We called in for each other, which was not difficult at all since the person answering the phones and taking absences in the office was a friend of ours......man, our school was so trusting! I wouldn't trade those day for anything, they were truly VERY happy times, and I hope my DD has the same opportunities when she is 18 and getting ready to graduate.

Carb Day would have been a great one. I was living in Lake County so we went to Mt Baldy at Lake Michigan.

Kae

 

[Donaldswife]

Carb Day would have been a great one. I was living in Lake County so we went to Mt Baldy at Lake Michigan.

Kae

Carb Day was definitely the craziest. This was 1994 so it was still pretty wild in the infield in those days (they have definitely cracked down a lot in the last 10 years or so). Oh, the things we saw. I guess you could argue we were studying anatomy and sex ed that day!

 

[Jennasis]

My school threatened anyone with an unexcused absence on "Senior Cut Day" with being refused participation in graduation.

 

[Sandy321]

Carb Day would have been a great one. I was living in Lake County so we went to Mt Baldy at Lake Michigan.

Kae

We lived in Porter County, IN - went to either 6 Flags - - or we went up to Warren Dunes in Michigan (Mt Baldy was a weekend getaway, we had to do something bigger!!)

 

[It'sWDW4me]

My senior skip day just happened to be the same day as my grandfather's funeral. You betcha that secretary eyed my excuse up with a hint of suspicion! I'm sure they reviewed the recent obits for cross-reference.

Would I let DS skip? At this point, I'd be more than thrilled for him to make it to his senior year without quitting altogether so, yeah, a day? By all means!

 

[agnes!]

I'm so sick of the school and so tired of hurting for DD that I'd let her skip from now until the end of the year (and around here that's around mid-June).

What's funny is that the school has a program where seniors can volunteer at the end of the year (with attendant onerous paperwork and bureaucratic oversight) and not have to physically go to school but DD isn't going to do that. Finding - heck, even *thinking* about trying to find - a charity that would take a teenager for only a few weeks was just too stressful with the APs & such for many of the students so what's going to happen is that all the 'populars' (most of whose parents have signed but the kids are just cajoling the system and will be doing nothing) will be gone and the regular kids will take over.

DD said she is looking forward to going to school and actually having fun.

agnes!

 

[luvmy3]

Of course I'll let my kids skip on Senior Skip Day.
When I was a Senior, we were threatened with severe punishment (I don't think they were very clear on what it was though) if we skipped, but everyone did, we just had our parents call us in sick.
There were a few who went in, but left early, they didn't want to ruin their perfect attendance.

 

[PatsMom]

I let my daughter cut on her senior skip day. Most of her class drove up to Old Orchard Beach for the day. She had a great time and missed nothing of importance.

I cut on my senior skip day but I didn't like most of the people I went to high school with so I just hung out at my house and didn't join in any of the activities or parties that I knew were planned.

 

[ccgirl]

DD18's senior skip day is today but she went to school anyway. I didn't make her go but I encouraged her to and she made the right decision.
I skipped on my senior skip day, 23 years ago , and I don't think my parents knew.
Would you or have you let your senior skip school on their senior skip day?

Yes. I absolutely would let them skip on this day. Parents let children "skip" school for all sorts of reasons. Was she ever pulled out for a vacation? I let my DD8 "skip" for mental health days every now and then. I see senior skip day as nothing different.

 

[charming23]

Our senior skip day was the day before Prom. Since my friends and I were not going to prom we skipped friday and headed up to Cedar Point for the day and then went up to my families beach house for the rest of the weekend.

My parents and all of my friends parents were on board. The school considered it an unexcused abscence but everyone got 5 of those each quarter before there were severe consquences and none of us had used any.

 

[Princess_Meghan <3]

I skipped on my senior skip day last year- we gave ourselves a 5 day weekend, since we had off wednesday and friday, but had school on thursday, so we chose that as our senior skip day. It was actually really early in the year, and we took the administration by surprise. They expected us to skip at the end of the year, like most classes do. We just had to be different, lol.

My mom let me skip- that was actually the day I went to choose which of my senior pictures I wanted, and it was the only day the photographer had available to do it, so I probably wouldn't have gone to school even if it wasn't senior skip day.

My sister doesn't think she's going to skip this year, but my mom told her she could if she wanted to. The funny thing is, my mom always thought I would be the one who insisted on going to school for senior skip day, and that my sister would be the one who wanted to skip.