skipping class

Hallo,

As the third term of my Senior year seems to unwind to its end I would like to talk about something that is dear to my heart. Unlike most kids at my school, my parents were very liberal regarding skipping school. They always knew how it felt to be really tired and depressed because of school, and they didn't mind if I skipped a little, from time to time. But as high school came in, the number of days that I skipped started increasing. In junior year I skipped most part of my PE classes, and almost had to redo the subject because of how our education system works. Happily, after being scolded by my teachers and counselors for being an irresponsible fuck, they sorta spared me because they know I am not an athlete and I just can't do shit because of my medical conditions. But skipping class is way more than avoiding 4 and a half years worth of swimming classes.

For someone that is about to leave the high school realm, many feelings can be attributed to skipping classes. I will be excluding the situation when you skip class because you are genuinely sick.

In the beginning, when you ask your parents to skip (ask or pretend you're sick), you usually feel happy like you just won the lottery. You start already thinking of all the things you are gonna do, ranging from playing video games to finishing an assignment you have for the next day. But then, you look at the clock. You see it's the time you were supposed to be getting in biology class. You sorta feel weird, you should be in walking right now to classroom n36. But you are at home. Your classmates are going to be doing work, and you will have to talk to your teachers and lie to their faces, telling them you were sick, you are used to doing that anyways. So now you are playing cod online, what else could you do on a school day? Your match is being fucking great, your KTD is high as it could. You remember that you will need to keep up with all the things you were supposed to learn that day, mega oof. And maybe you shouldn't have skipped that day since a test is so close and you need the teachers annotations since the retard doesn't follow the god damned text book. Eh, a B- will do I guess. College isn't real anyways, you'll be a kid forever. So the day goes on, and you just feel sorta awkward because it is not part of your normal routine. For me it's as is if you loaded Mario 64 on your n64 and mario's stretchy wreck of a polygon face didn't pop up. It's just cause you didn't go and answer your call of duty as a student. But hey, if you are like me, you will soon become desensitized to skipping class and it will become part of your daily routine!

So, it's the next day and the teacher is sorta mad because you have been skipping a lot. You can't keep using a headache and the flu as excuses. Desperate times call for desperate measures. So, you tell your teacher that you had a fucking episode of endless diarrhea streams. The teachers are obviously too scared to ask, and just let it slide. In the future you will use other excuses that sound inconceivable (per example: “ family problems”, “asthma episodes”, “gastroenteritis”, “pneumonia” etc...). And you know what is the greatest thing out of everything? Your parents never ever stepped on your school for any parents' reunion. They just assume you are a smart motherfucker. And the school can't call your parents or email them, because you gave the school the wrong phone numbers and email addresses. Good job! The school can't even send letter reports, because the mail system in your country is rigged. Heck yeah!

So, you keep repeating this cycle and skipping stops feeling like something you can rarely use but something that is part of your routine. You start feeling awkward for being at school, what the heck are you even doing there, your wii is waiting for you at home.

But then, the day you dread arrives. Your teachers tell you that you can only skip a few more times before you need to repeat the whole school year. You get mad, even though you rarely set your feet in school you are one of the best students in the whole class, and the teacher tells you that you need to repeat the year? Up yours. So you need to start rationing your skipping days. You make plans for using them exclusively for emergencies. But you start feeling like you have this weird need to skip. You just can't stand being at school anymore. You can't take anything. So your life now consists of making up solid lies that you tell to your teachers and parents that if in case they somehow get in contact don't automatically send you to detention land. You are now a slave of your own choices and you just want the year to end without your mom putting you in a cage.

But there are other funnier cases of skipping class. Sometimes you are at school with your friends, and you know that the next class is not important at all. Just for the heck of it, you decided to skip class, while at school. So you just go outside so none of your teachers runs into you. Last time I did this, I did it to go watch dragonball at the playground. It was worth it, two of my old teachers saw me but they didn't know my schedule so they just assumed me and my friends were just had a loose block. (we call periods of 45 minutes blocks at my school, I dunno how it works at your school). It's always a nice time, running through the school hallways, avoiding teachers, taking different turns and shortcuts, literally jumping sets of stairs, almost fucking your ankles for life. And then you see your teacher in the corner of your eye, and you and your friends all hide behind a pillar. One of them peeking to see if the teacher is coming in your direction. Somehow, y'all make it alive out of that situation and go to the patio drink soda (that is considered an illicit beverage at your school for some reason). After that, you have some fond memories with the friend you will never talk with since you leave those school gates for the last time.

There are way more situations of skipping class and I might make a part two, but for now the inspiration is gone.