Well if you understand the material you're supposed to be reading then it's not crucial you go to the lecture (I think, it's there just to help clarify, add to the stuff you're reading). But if you skip constantly regardless, then what's the point? Why are you paying the $$$$ if you're not going to be there? Might as well get something out of it. (and yes I have skipped, just not constantly)

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Originally posted by Endlesswave But if you skip constantly regardless, then what's the point? Why are you paying the $$$$ if you're not going to be there? Might as well get something out of it. (and yes I have skipped, just not constantly)

I agree.

Dude, get your shit together.

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Originally posted by Endlesswave Why are you paying the $$$$ if you're not going to be there? Might as well get something out of it. (and yes I have skipped, just not constantly)

For that piece of paper you get at the end. I would have thought that much was obvious.

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Originally posted by Arbiter For that piece of paper you get at the end. I would have thought that much was obvious.

Doesn't skipping class lead to failing class? I know at my school its policy to drop you grade a full letter for every 7 days you miss, and fail you if you miss 15. Even if you've done all the work(exceptions for serious medical conditions etc.)

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Originally posted by Nadi Doesn't skipping class lead to failing class? I know at my school its policy to drop you grade a full letter for every 7 days you miss, and fail you if you miss 15. Even if you've done all the work(exceptions for serious medical conditions etc.)

This varies a lot from place to place unfortunately. Where I went to high school you could miss as much class as you wanted as long as you were there for tests and did all your assignments, so I usually missed two days a week. A lot of my friends down here who went to high school in VA had serious restrictions on absences, though.

What you can always do, though, is find a doctor willing to diagnose you with depression (which cannot be proven one way or the other). In most cases, students with depression are "encouraged to attend school to what extend their medical condition permits." This is pretty much a self-limit, which gives you all the freedom you want. My brother didn't attend a day of school for two years, took his tests at home, and posted a 4.0 GPA for those years using this method.

Wow. Ive been diagnosed with depresion for years. Now to convince my parents.

In High School I'd go to school, but once attendance was taken my friends and I would go to the bathrooms, use our cell phones and check each other out. That way it doesn't officially count, but you need a note. And if the only notes the front office has ever received are in your friend's handwriting, then how are they to know the difference between forged and fake lol. The entire senior class would be gone by lunch and the office could do nothing to prove we wern't all home sick or at funerals or some shit, hehehehe... I mean hell, the valdictorian of my class missed more days of school than anyone in the grade!

College on the other hand did not take nearly as much thought. I'd just simply go to the first 5 minutes of class, write down my assignments and head tha fuck out the door. I didn't even know my damn proffessor's names! I passed my clsses and shit, but I was getting high pretty much every day during class. If I went to class it was normally high and with headphones of some trippy music, lol.

School was pointless for me. But then, that may be why I'm going into music instead of a career in teaching heheheh....

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Originally posted by BTG I promised my gf that i wouldn't skip class for the rest of the week.

try promising your GF not to smoke, now THATS a b1tch.

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I got shop all morning ussually i'll be the first 10min after attendance is taken my buddy and me leave teacher never noticed so long you don't do it everyday and do some work in the days you are there. I skipped many other classes and always got away with it I paid my price for it for always having a 50% or 51% final in a class

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Originally posted by MERiDiAN5i2 try promising your GF not to smoke, now THATS a b1tch. -mer

Try promising your girlfriend not to kiss any goats... I bet you'll be able to keep this one

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