HA my senior skip day involved going to the movies to see Breakfast Club then racing on a dangerous road (think airborne) with 2 girls at my side.Originally posted by ofos
NOTE: Senior skip day could be its own thread!
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A most excellent idea. Shazam!
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I perfected skipping my sophomore yearI elected to graduate a semester early so I skipped all the senior festivities.
"He defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me?" Jeremiah 22:16
My friends and I played roller hockey and then hit the used CD store for our "ditch day".
Yeah...
I know...
You get all squeezed up inside/Like the days were carved in stone/You get all wired up inside/And it's bad to be alone
You can go out, you can take a ride/And when you get out on your own/You get all smoothed out inside/And it's good to be alone
-Peart
I don't remember my Senior Skip Day, but I am sure it involved copious amounts of Dixie Beer and pot.
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~ Otterpop ~
Three friends and I...ice chest...beer...swimming in Lake Mendocino...sunburns. That's what I seem to remember.
Mi skule did'not'nt hevve senIOr skiP day. We staaid iun klass and studeed.
Beer
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Actually, the 1966 graduating class of Whitmer Senior High School did not practice Senior Skip Day. Just wasn't a tradition that had been established.....at that time.
I did skip on occasion. Best skip story.....
I skipped with my girlfriend, Doreen. There was a wooded area near our houses and, being typical teenage boys, we had built a fort in the center of the woods. Doreen and this Bear crashed at the fort, for some heavy-for-1966 petting.
There was a bit of dirt on the floor of the fort and as we exited and prepared to leave, she stood up and shook out a gym class blouse that we had used for a pillow or to lay on. (Nothing happend!)
An older gent was walking in the woods and from his viewpoint he saw just the top half of Doreen, shaking the dust from a shirt. Imagine his look!
Note: Names in the story have not been changed to protect the innocent. Dang it, I really was innocent.
Bear
Occupy Cyburbia!
1976 . . .
Kegs of beer (most of us were legal)
Setting free the giant fiberglass "Sirloin Stockade" Steer to graze on front lawn. It still exists at the fairgrounds.
Friend dumping a semi of gravel at the front door.
Relocating all non-fixed objects (Benches, tees, flags, signs, water jugs) from nearby golf course to the football field.
Holing up afterwards in a garage taking roll call to see who got busted.
Got me well prepared for college . . .
The skip day was sanctioned by the school and equated to getting out after homeroom. I don't remember clearly, but I believe there were some harsh penalties for not attending homeroom and you had to provide a doctors note if you were sick that day.
As for what I did? I don't think I did anything.. worked?
Dude, I'm cheesing so hard right now.
It happened in 1976.
Oddball
Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves?
Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
From Kelly's Heroes (1970)
Are you sure you're not hurt ?
No. Just some parts wake up faster than others.
Broke parts take a little longer, though.
From Electric Horseman (1979)
I was at a private Episcopal school; no senior skip day. (No, I'm not religious, that's just where my parents sent me...)
The tradition at my school, in the year of our lord 1996, was to head to Cedar Pointe for the day, in Sandusky, Ohio.
Honestly, I don't even think I went....probably just stayed home. But nearly all of my best friends went to the other high school in town - so I didnt' really hang out on a regular basis with too many people from my high school.
I can't recall a senior skip day, although there may of been one that I don't remember. Still, if it was widely celebrated I think I'd remember it by the sparse attendance.
No organized senior skip days when I was in h.s. Any absences in the last marking period meant that you had take final exams. Anybody with a brain didn't skip, didn't take final exams, and got out a few days earlier than the rebels.
“Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.” ― Aldo Leopold
I bet times were tough in the depression...one room school house and all.
Tell us all those stories again grandpa!!
I'm going to bed now. I get up with the chickens.
TMI!!!Hope you haven't just laid another egg with ZG.
“Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.” ― Aldo Leopold
RJ I actually went to a 1 room school house back in the day....
Really
Either my class was incredibly lazy or the fact that we were on split sessions* weighed into a lot of people's decision-making because I remember skip day attendance being about normal.
*Split sessions, for those of you that might be wondering, consisted of grades 10-12 attending class from 7.30 am to 12.15 am, and those in grades 7-9, from 12.30 to 5.15. Apparently, at least in 1978, the Garden State determined a 'school day' to consist of a minimum of 4.75 hours of instruction. Our school was on split sessions due to 'overcrowding' and as a punitive response by the School Board for the property tax-payers twice defeating school bond referenda.
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I have seen
old ships sailing
like swans asleep
I don't think I skipped any other days from school than senior skip day. The GF and I drove out to the beach at Lake Michigan (South Haven) and spent the day gazing romantically into each others eyes (and maybe some groping and other stuff took place too).
People will miss that it once meant something to be Southern or Midwestern. It doesn't mean much now, except for the climate. The question, “Where are you from?” doesn't lead to anything odd or interesting. They live somewhere near a Gap store, and what else do you need to know? - Garrison Keillor
A large group of folks from my senior class went to Cedar Pointe and another large group went to a local park and drank. I went to school that day.
I only skipped one time in high school and even then that only amounted to leaving during lunch and coming back half an hour late (we were not allowed to leave for lunch). I was a rebel.
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The h.s. I actually graduated from didn't have an organized Senior Skip Day. But I remember that several dozen students arranged one of their own, and were out one day. I wasn't the most popular student that year - senior year was the only year I had in that school, and I was smart - so I wasn't involved or invited to take part in the unofficial Senior Skip Day.
No loss.
"We do not need any other Tutankhamun's tomb with all its treasures. We need context. We need understanding. We need knowledge of historical events to tie them together. We don't know much. Of course we know a lot, but it is context that's missing, not treasures." - Werner Herzog, in Archaeology, March/April 2011
I vaguely remember going off-campus (to a park?) with my classmates - most of them, anyway. We had a cooler full of subs and some beer. No big deal.
I have a better recollection of hitchhiking to nearby New Paltz with a friend just a few days before graduation. We were among the top students in our class and rarely got into trouble, but someone apparently spotted us and we got chewed out by one of our teachers when we got back. Because it was so close to graduation, though, there were no formal repercussions. In fact, I think we got drunk with that same teacher at a post-graduation party.
There was a lot of ditching my senior year. We had a rash of bomb threats (we made NBC nightly news), so it finally got to the point that I would park my car in the neighborhood behind the school and make a break for it when we were evacuated to the stadium.
I was a major participant in senior skip day. A group of friends & I never showed up at school and instead drove to Mexico. I was "crashing at a friend's house" as far as my parents knew
Like Mud Princess, I was one of the top students. However, I was also the class clown with an ability to talk my way out of trouble. I don't think the teachers cared much because my grades were good and I was a decent, respectful kid. I guess I knew when to turn the clown off and on.
"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
- Herman Göring at the Nuremburg trials (thoughts on democracy)
Senior Skip Day my senior year in Indianapolis was Carboration Day, the last full day of practice for the drivers before the Indy 500, the Thursday before Memorial Day Weekend. The race used to take the whole month of May in Indy, but they shortened up the schedule since then. Don't know what they do today.
JOE ILIFF
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Did you know that the movie "Dazed and Confused" is largely set around senior skip day/graduation for the class of '76?It happened in 1976.
Like Gedunker, we had split session h.s. as well. I remember the admin got wind of a senior skip day and made some threat as to grades or suspension. Several of us just decided to do it two days later and left about 3rd period and went to the beach. We all had different excuses and that was it. It sorta seemed like a let down, but we did enjoy ourselves.
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