when and how'd you play hookie?
By chicha0522
@chicha0522 (648)
Guam
2 responses
@Bev1986 (1425)
• United States
25 Feb 08
I never skipped school in high school because there was nowhere to go! lol! We live in a rural area, so our school was out in the middle of nowhere, so if you rode the bus and got off at the school, you didn't have anywhere to go.
In college, I did skip a couple of classes, but that was very rare. I usually only missed class if I was sick. I hated having to catch up on work!
1 person likes this
@chicha0522 (648)
• Guam
26 Feb 08
I agree with stevenscash.
Like right now, my class starts at 12:30pm, but its a 5 hour class. By the time its over our brains are drained and were so hungry.
I guess having at least a day off from school every 3 days would be refreshing. Plus you have more time to do your school work.
wait, where's your school at? I know how that feels. Having nowhere to go so there's no reason to skip school.
@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
25 Feb 08
Playing hooky was a fairly easy thing for me when I was in high school. I had friends who lived in a trailer park that was practically right behind our school, so sometimes we'd just cut out and head to one of their places. There wasn't a lot of supervision really, and though I'd wind up in trouble later with the school, it usually wouldn't even wind up getting back to whomever I was living with at the time. Usually my contact person for school was my father, but by that time we didn't even live together, so no one would really say much about it.
@chicha0522 (648)
• Guam
25 Feb 08
oh... was it all that fun? I guess in college you have a choice whether to attend class or not. but in high school... i don't know. In the Philippines, they close the gates during class time, so none of the students could go out, unless they had a parent or guardian with them.
1 person likes this
@lecanis (16647)
• Murfreesboro, Tennessee
25 Feb 08
In the United States, it depends on the school. In bigger cities, there's likely to be a lot more security. However, I lived in a small town, and my school had students from most of the county around it, a lot of farm families and such. There wasn't much security at all. There were doors in remote parts of the school, like the agricultural wing or the technology area, where you could essentially just walk out without anyone seeing you unless those teachers happened to be out of their classrooms.
My senior year I had another method of playing "hooky". I was involved in both the school newscast and speech competitions, so I often left classes with the excuse of filming for the newscast or preparing for speech competitions. Since I was one of those students that made good grades on tests even if they didn't even come to class, I suppose it was easier for me to get away with such things. Most teachers didn't want me in their classes anyway, since I tended to like to correct them and be sarcastic. I was a bit of a terror at that age, thinking I was smarter than everyone and such. I finished high school with very good scores, even though I wasn't that diligent a student.
In college, I missed most of a semester, but that was because I was in the hospital most of the time. I wound up losing my scholarships, and that's why I didn't finish college.
@chicha0522 (648)
• Guam
26 Feb 08
awww... why were you in the hospital most of your time in college?
