Senior Skip Day

[disykat]

I would have been killed if I had skipped but I would let my kids do it. High school is not the end all be all. Unless they were having some very important tests that day that could not be made up I would even drive them wherever they want to go or give them money for the gas and the day. Have fun while you are young enough to do it.

Same here. My stressed out senior hadn't missed a day all year until last week. He has all AP classes. Most of the kids were done with all their tests, but ds still had a test on Friday. Since everyone was pretty much doing nothing all day in his classes, he stayed home to study on Thursday! Usually I'd say "no" to skipping school, but if he wanted another day off I'd be all for it!

I wouldn't, however, call him in "sick." He would have to deal with whatever consequences.

 

[Big Cuddly Bear]

I went to school then, but if I was a kid now I probably would skip.

 

[Big Cuddly Bear]

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.

Heck, I know two different families that are at WDW with their kids this week. And one of them goes every year at this time. Plus one family left on Friday, so the kid misses 6 days.

One day, no big deal, as long as the kid is doing well.

 

[Coach K]

I would not be here if I skipped during senior skip day!!!!

I now coach at a high school and senior skip day was on a Friday. School policy is that athletes competing during the weekend MUST be in school the day before the weekend. No one told me it was senior skip day and had a lot of seniors scheduled to compete that weekend. Needless to say I was pretty ticked off and the bus was a pretty empty for that meet!

 

[Bearvet]

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

I was a pretty wild teenager and was terrified of skipping on senior skip day due to the consequences, so I didn't do it.

DS18 asked if I would call him in for senior skip day last week. I told him we need to know the repercussions first - like they may not be allowed to "walk" at graduation. DS has worked too hard to get where he is to not be able to participate in the graduation ceremony.

I asked him about it again the other day and he said the plans fell through so it doesn't matter now. I'm not sure what that means....

As long as the consequences weren't too dire, I would have let him skip.....

 

[onelilspark]

I went in. My Mom told me that she would let me skip, but I didn't. I changed the language I was taking in my sophomore year, so I was a year behind...the only senior in that class! And I had a test! So I couldn't really skip unless I ducked out after that first period...

I had a friend who was in half my classes come in to keep me company because she knew I couldn't skip without messing up my grade in Spanish (which was hanging on by a thread...easily my worst subject!) The administration were patrolling the student parking lot looking for people who left early too, which is why we stayed in class the whole day. We didn't have any homework that night (since there were so few of us in school!) so we wound up going out to the mall & movies right after school was over.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

My high school physics teacher always scheduled a test for senior skip day, so I went to school for part of the day, then I left to go see a movie with some friends.

I don't remember if my parents knew, but I don't think they would have cared regardless. I was a good kid with good grades, and I was already heading off to their alma mater in the fall, so they wouldn't have seen it as important for me to be at school.

 

[Katie's Butterflies]

My high school had a scheduled senior skip day and if we as seniors showed up, we'd be lectured for showing up then put to work detail. The skip day was the Friday before the big fundraising event (a carnival that took place in the school's student parking lot). They needed the space, so they told Seniors to leave...or else.

However, I missed the memo for the unofficial skip day, so I and about 10 others showed up to mostly empty classes. lol The teachers were prepared though and gave us all surprise quizzes (super easy but worth a ton of points) then played movies and/or handed out extra credit worksheets.

 

[mamacatnv]

It was the one unexcused absence of DS's high school career. I allowed it, I even offered to call in for him but he was adament that he wanted one unexcused absence on his record. His class all went up to Tahoe for the day and got rained on, they didn't care, it was about being together for "the last time" as a class.

 

[NotUrsula]

I didn't -- as I recall some of the teachers nailed us with tests that day.

What I DO remember (30-something years on) is that one group from my school paid a truly unpleasant price for deciding to skip. They traveled a couple of hours away and went to a zoo for the day -- where a male tiger decided that urinating on the crowd outside his enclosure would be an EXCELLENT idea. They happened to be standing right in the zone and didn't see it coming, and they got drenched. If you think that domestic cat pee is rank, you can imagine what this smelled like. They had to drive home smelling like that, and the interior of the car was completely ruined. (Naturally they had borrowed a parent's car for this jaunt. )

 

[4greatboys]

I did participate in Senior skip day. I don't remember if I asked my mom if I could not. Likely I did not since I didn't ask her the other times I skipped. I didn't do it a lot but it happened sometimes

My 2 sons that have graduated both participated in Senior skip day with my permission.

 

[Handbag Lady]

I don't know about these days, but in 1986, it didn't count if your parents knew and gave you permission.

 

[LisaNJ25]

It seems like at my school its the day after prom... DS is skipping 2 days to go to Wildwood after the prom. As an 18yo senior thats his choice.

 

[Styx Fan]

I skipped that day with my parents knowledge. Why not? I was a graduating 11th out of 400 students and had a 3.85 GPA! All of my friends skipped as well. It was not an official school sanctioned event (that would have spoiled the fun), but it was known by all my teachers. None of them would have dreamed of giving a test that day. So maybe you could say it was unofficially sanctioned

We drove around for a while, my one friend with fake ID bought some beer and we went to a park and an ice cream parlor. The beer was more for show than anything...I hated beer even then and there was like a 6 pack between 5 of us. This was in 1982

 

[RabbitFood]

I don't know about these days, but in 1986, it didn't count if your parents knew and gave you permission.

THANK YOU!
Honestly, how is it skipping if mommy or daddy calls the kid in?
My parents didn't call me in, and I didn't skip. We've told our kids that we're not calling them in. If they choose to skip, they'll have to take the consequences (which is Saturday school here.)

 

[rie'smom]

Skipping school, a topic that brings back the good old days. We skipped all year long. The beach was 30 minutes away. Walking down the hall or in the parking lot, someone would say, It's Monday( any day would work) and some one else would say, " Monday, I think Mondays are good at the beach." Off we'd go.

Once, the vice principal chased us down the hall but we were younger and faster.

BTW, all of us have been successful in our lives.

 

[geffric]

i didnt read all the thread.. but no stopping me from posting dont ya love that..

anyway, our HS wont let the seniors skip or ditch.. so they go to school all year long.. i would let my kids go but off to school they went..it is after AP exams, grades are the midterm grade.. and all they have is senior brunch, senior lunch, senior picnic, senior band cancert, senior sports awards.. etc..

 

[castmember19]

My senior year was only a year ago, and there were many unofficial days but no set date. There was one day where most seniors were gone and I was at school that day because a lot of us believed the date was too early in the year.

Two friends of mine and I took our "senior skip day" on the day that mattered the least. The rest of the school was testing and seniors were having a field day that day instead. Since I am a terrible athlete, we all went on a mini road trip and went to a river in a neighboring city instead.

My mom was not like, "Cool! Have fun!" but she did realize that if I was going to skip any day, that probably would have been the best day to do it. I don't know if my dad ever knew.

 

[hereyago]

Well mine was kind of odd: In 11 and 12 th grades I went to 2 schools at the same time : regular high school for a few classes, then to a magnet school for childcare.

So my regular high school had senior skip day, which I participated in, but the magnet school didn't have it. but I didn't skip the magnet school because we actually had little kids a couple times a week come there for child care-think SAHM's who need a break a couple times a week. Well, child care, you can't just have 1 person watching over a certain amount of kids.

Oh but in 11th grade, I did have class skip day: and we all got ISS for 3 days at our home school. what does it say when everyone in the class but 1 person doesn't show up when a substitute that used to be a drill sargeant is there? lol

 

[collegejunkie]

my mom let me skip whenever i wanted (woohoo), so senior skip day wasn't really a big deal. in my school, it was usually the day before or right after spring break and if it was nice, everyone went to 6 flags great adventure. some kids went to the beach, but it was mostly 6 flags. i actually didn't participate because i didn't care for waking up even earlier than i would have to for school to go to 6 flags. i think i DID go to class, but only because i knew we wouldn't be doing anything since everyone was gone. i'm sure i made up my own skip day later on.

i think it's nice if you actually plan on spending the day with classmates. it's a good way to see everyone off and it really shows class-wide unity when you're all in a big group, getting along, friend groups mixing, etc.