Did you participate in Senior Skip Day when you were in high school?
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procrastinatorsuprem@reddit
I did. I had mono so basically I slept in the back of my friends car as we drove around.
Before we graduated, we were required to have an exit interview with the principal. He mentioned that he noticed I participated in senior skip day. He wanted to know how I could do that, but yet I could only go to school for half a day. I told him I went, but I slept through most of it, then went home and took a nap. Idk if he believed me.
Mikethemechanic00@reddit
No. But everyone took out all of their books and notebooks. We threw them all over the campus. It was pretty cool.
Aspen9999@reddit
No, I graduated 2 yrs early, that was my “ skip” years.
OldDogWithOldTricks@reddit
Yes, we went to a lake and partied.
jvc1011@reddit
We didn’t have it. We talked about it and didn’t do it. Most of us had too much stuff to finish.
21stCenturyJanes@reddit
Yes, it wasn't even a question. I doubt anyone went to school that day, the school fully looked the other way.
SkydivingSus@reddit
They literally did events… bouncy houses, raffles, games type situation for seniors at the end of the year. And most of us went because our teachers explained that it reduced their funding to have a bunch of seniors skipping so we signed in and fucked around because we appreciated our teachers and wanted them to have funding.
AlaskanBiologist@reddit
Shit I skipped my entire senior year lol
AttilaTheFun818@reddit
Yep one teacher said he’d fail anybody that showed up on that day. We loved that guy.
GreatestState@reddit
Every other day was skip day in my high school
IWantToBuyAVowel@reddit
I'd only go to school 3-4 days out of the week during my senior year. I'm the reason why my district is so strict with their attendance policy now (only 10 'mommy' notes allowed in a school year anything after that you need a doctor's excuse or it's unexcused.) The 10 days thing was strictly enforced the year after I graduated.
Weirdly enough, I have perfect attendance at work. Turns out if you pay me to show up, I will.
TheFugitive70@reddit
I went to school on Senior Skip just to make it different. I had 31 absences before skip day.
No-Environment6103@reddit
Yes especially for seniors lol. After that Christmas break we got, class was pretty useless for seniors and everyone would just hang out and skip.
Debsha@reddit
If we were out for 15 days in a marking period it was an automatic F in each class. The last marking period I hit 14 days (and I had a fabulous tan to show for it).
TheBimpo@reddit
Ours was 12 days. This was in the early 90s when schools gave you a planner at the beginning of the school year, so we all kept a meticulous calendar to keep track of when we were out. I'd go in sick as a dog so I could skip on a sunny day in the spring instead.
Debsha@reddit
Yeah, on day 14 my home room teacher called my mother to warn her of my absences (he grew up across the street from my father and his mother and my grandmother had coffee every day together). I actually was sick on that day, so it was agreed I’d go to school and if needed he would send me to the nurse so she could send me home, thus being counted officially in for the day.
GreatestState@reddit
The way it worked in mine was each class kept its own attendance. We had block scheduling, so we checked in with 4 teachers over the course of a 7 hour day. The first period teacher was responsible for deciding who was marked present and who was marked absent. Many of my other teachers didn’t care. We’d skip a class and go home, and then show up 2 hours later for the next class. Sometimes we’d just leave after first period. I really miss those days.
Particular_Bet_5466@reddit
Our school wasn’t open campus. But most of us had nearly all our credits. In my case I just needed an English credit to graduate after Xmas break. So I had the minimum electives and that one English class scheduled so my entire afternoons were off. I would just sneak out and leave. I think school doors are locked with security these days, but back then I just had to get around the teachers lol. I got caught a few times, once the school security guy blocked my car in.
InevitableRhubarb232@reddit
I didn’t know anyone who skipped classes /school more than maybe once a year. We were nerds though so maybe the other groups did
thirdeyefish@reddit
Yeah, it didn't hold much appeal for me because I was 18 as a senior and already came and went as I pleased.
mfigroid@reddit
Same. I didn't need a special day to ditch. I ditched all the time.
Bayonettea@reddit
Same, my senior year I had like 2 classes and they were both in the morning, so I'd be gone by like 10
I even tried staying a few times and the teachers would literally tell me to go home because I had no reason to be there anymore
OkExplanation2001@reddit
Yep
EmOrY_2018@reddit
Same for my daughter
GreatestState@reddit
Sorry, I hope it turned out well in the end
Bitter_Ad_9523@reddit
same!
jfellrath@reddit
When I was in high school I did, though our school made it an official thing by calling it "Senior Preparation for Exams Day."
Formo1287@reddit
That’s a rather unfortunate acronym they picked
kobeng13@reddit
Our school did the exact same thing. I also remember it being the day before Senior Prom.
arrre_yooouu_meeeeee@reddit
There’s how ours was. It was known as Junior/Senior skip day
Eagle_Fang135@reddit
Ours was an official day as they counted the day before graduation as the make up day. That day only seniors attended to do graduation ceremony practice and I think other graduation stuff. So technically that “make up day” was Freshmen - Junior skip day.
Tudorrosewiththorns@reddit
As long as we had less then a certain amount of sick days we had taken we could skip the week before graduation and exams. I actually had to take one exam in Chorus because I signed myself in after first period too many times.
Weightmonster@reddit
Was it singing?
Tudorrosewiththorns@reddit
No there was a state mandated written test.
JMS1991@reddit
It's not a skip day if the school makes it official. That just takes the fun out of it.
proscriptus@reddit
Yes, although every day was skip day when I was in high school
colorkiller@reddit
i probably did but i don’t remember
BrinaGu3@reddit
Yes. I grew up on an island, and the entire senior class was no the beach. fun day for all.
ShakarikiGengoro@reddit
No one told me.
kinetogen@reddit
Technically I guess? By Senior year in High School, I was on work-release half the week because I was ahead on Credits and didn't want to graduate early, so I went to work and made money that day while everyone was getting slap-on-the-wrist warnings about unauthorized truancy.
Mama_K22@reddit
For us it is the day of the Senior Ball so yes I skipped because we were doing hair, nails, etc to get ready
Major-Distance4270@reddit
Nope
Liathano_Fire@reddit
Lol, everyday was senior skip day to me.
entcanta333@reddit
No, but I wish I did.
exosphere_11@reddit
Tbh i don't remember
sgtm7@reddit
No. When I went, seniors were only required to take the number of classes as credits they needed to graduate. I only needed 3 credits, so I was only at school for 3 hours, before I left and went to work.
mshepard222@reddit
I did! However, my graduating class was 44 people (private school in WV). We all hung out at a classmate’s house all day, had a cookout and played in the pool. I think maybe only 3 or 4 people from the class weren’t there that day.
Cant-Take-Jokes@reddit
No, I didn’t.
Parking_Champion_740@reddit
Yep!
elvensnowfae@reddit
No. Our senior class was too stupid haha. They picked a day, then changed it but didn't let everyone know so half the class skipped that day and half the class skipped the other day.
I thought it was dumb bc I had great attendance so I stayed both days lol
Firecrackershrimp2@reddit
My hs actually removed it tolds us if we skipped we didn't walk. But we made and unofficial skip day anyway. I still went i had a lot of at home all my teachers were like why are you here?! So I just spent the entire day in pottery class working on my senior project
CIA-pizza-party@reddit
Nope, but since most everyone else did some of our teachers just let the rest of us chill/nap the entire class period the whole day.
Efficient_Wheel_6333@reddit
Yep, only ours was the day of prom, which was on a Friday. Officially, it was so the girls could have the time to get ready and so both (if folks were going with a date) could the flowers for their date.
PumpkinPatch404@reddit
Nah. Almost no one did.
Usual-Bag-3605@reddit
Yep. However, my parents gave me full permission because my grades were good, and I was just going to hang out with my friends at the mall all day.
nemc222@reddit
Yes, way back in 1980.
Derkastan77-2@reddit
My mother was “The Attendance Lady” at my High School. Not only did I not participate, but for 4 years, everyone hated me because ANYONE who ever ditched.. my mom called and told their parents
blippityblooop@reddit
Yup, I just stayed home tho, I didn't go to the beach because I didn't think some of my friends would go and the ones that were i assumed were going with their other friends. I could've joined, but I'd just feel awkward inviting myself to hang out with another friend group, definitely was overthinking it tho
notyourmama827@reddit
Yeah but it was a lot of days.
304libco@reddit
No, my mother absolutely forbade it.
join-the-line@reddit
Yep, and my brother ratted me out. And my mom told him to mind his own damn business! 😂
vineclan@reddit
I skipped school all the time … every year of high school, multiple times … just because I didn’t want to go!
Consistent_Damage885@reddit
Nope. Had a big chemistry test that day and I took school very seriously.
snyder3894@reddit
Yup, me and a few friends hopped on the train and went to a Cubs game.
LorettasToyBlogPojo@reddit
Yes, but because my mother was strict, I had to have a good reason to get her to excuse me, so I went to get my driver's license! I'm not sure if the school pursued action against kids that didn't have a legit parent's note, as 2nd in my class and trying for a scholarship to college, wasn't risking it. If the school wanted, they could've withheld a diploma. Truancy was serious back then, not sure about now.
QueasyAd7509@reddit
Yep! Went to cedar point.
geri73@reddit
Sure did, but on some of the occasions, I was not a senior. 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade skip days.
Jumpy-Cranberry-1633@reddit
Yes
No_Sir_6649@reddit
Yeah. I slept in, got bitched at by stepmom.. so went to the arcade until i got a call to smoke pot and party at some kids place
mcdonaldsfrenchfri@reddit
yes it was an official day at my school. like if you showed up, it was gonna be just you lol
Mental_Internal539@reddit
I did on my own day though, I wasn't doing it the same day my annoying ass class mates did it.
csiddiqui@reddit
Of course. You can’t graduate unless you skip for senior skip day. Its a rule
BlaktimusPrime@reddit
Yup! And I was one of those kids that was never absent or anything like that so I was so nervous about getting caught.
What___Do@reddit
Yes. Hilariously, our Valedictorian (who was both smart and so dumb sometimes) skipped but still went by the school to drop off paperwork. So, he got in trouble because they could now prove he was just skipping class. 😂
TheySayImZack@reddit
Nope, I was too scared of my parents to do that. I did, however, wind up being the only kid in Calculus that afternoon, and I had a direct 1:1 with the teacher for 45 mins, and wound up acing the next test. I'll never forget that.
On_my_last_spoon@reddit
Yes, and I nearly got in trouble for it too! I was always such a good kid, but by the end of senior year I had about enough. One of my teachers got a bug up her ass and decided to call my house. But it was the 1990s so no one was home and she left a message on the answering machine. I got home first and erased the message!
And because it was just one teacher and the principal didn’t care (because this was a thing that happened every year) I didn’t get in trouble at school either.
hoosiertailgate22@reddit
Yes c/o 2014. I skipped a lot though lmao
Irresponsable_Frog@reddit
Yes. Now it’s a real holiday. But my senior class all voted on a day to skip…thru paper ballot and gave to our school president..and all of us met at an amusement park. We did this because tickets were REALLY cheap in groups more than 30. It’s the only time my senior class actually spoke with other cliques. I had 3 other people in my car, all basically strangers. And drove out to the park and met with about 90 other kids. We spent the day with our friends and met at my car by 7pm. Then left. This was in 1993.
susannahstar2000@reddit
No. It wasn't sanctioned, so being a good girl, I went to class as usual. I have heard of some schools that do Senior Trips..that would have been fun! Also have heard of Skip Days that are school sanctioned.
HighFiveKoala@reddit
My high school class did it but I didn't participate
1000thusername@reddit
Yes
SemiOldCRPGs@reddit
Umm, I skipped my senior year and went straight to college. Does that count?
mukn4on@reddit
No. Trying to impress my girlfriend, who was not going to skip.
camelslikesand@reddit
I skipped so much in high school that I went to school that day. I was always a contrarian. The only day I didn't wear a concert t-shirt was concert tee day
hawken54321@reddit
I had a bunch of skip days. Once, I parked outside my last class with surfboard in my station wagon and walked in wearing huarache sandals. My school, Clairemont in San Diego, was the Ridgemont High from the movie but years earlier.
mrshyphenate@reddit
I did, but I literally just stayed home and did nothing. Wish I had done something fun.
speed_of_chill@reddit
Oh, I enjoyed many skip days during the last half of my Senior year in high school.
PObox3@reddit
Our skip day turned into a week. All hell broke loose when the admin caught wind of it.
RogerMoore2011@reddit
No, I was (am still) a rule follower. Plus my parents would never lie for me.
Zaidswith@reddit
By the end of the semester I'd taken my AP exams and was exempt from attending those classes entirely.
I don't remember if I skipped on Senior Skip Day. Maybe? But maybe not. Attending when everyone else was gone was usually enjoyable.
Senior exams were a week before everyone else and perfect attendance exempted you from class exams (but not state exams which were taken earlier anyway).
What I'm saying is that our school really knew we didn't care for that last month. We had to attend a graduation rehearsal the last week of school and that was it.
ComprehensiveHome928@reddit
Yes. Went to the beach with my friends.
I actually have a cute story about it. My English teacher was also our senior class sponsor. She was assigned to help us plan our prom and other senior activities. Now, our class was assigned a teacher that was generally not well liked. She was a bit of a bear. But she was well organized and helped us and was fair in what we could do and not do. We started to really like her even though she was the way she was. So our senior skip day wherever we all went we brought her back a souvenir. Ticket stubs, bottles of sand, other trinkets. We all walked through her class that Monday morning and piled the souvenirs on her desk until it was overflowing. She sat down and cried and hugged every one of us saying she has never felt so loved in her LIFE. She retired soon after.
Pie-Level@reddit
No. I noticed that only the 67 IQ kids in my class skipped though.
GeneralFuture4136@reddit
i skipped too many days in HS
meg_c@reddit
I skipped my entire senior year and went to college a year early 😆
Fangsong_37@reddit
I don't remember us having a Senior Skip Day, but I did go on the Senior Trip to Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia.
littlemiss198548912@reddit
No, but I was lucky that my physics class went to Ceder Point on our school's senior skip day for our class final.
Flexappeal7@reddit
That was the day I swore in to the military. Wish I had done something more fun though
MaddoxJKingsley@reddit
My senior skip day fell on the day my one class had a field trip... to the amusement park most of the seniors were going anyway. Free ride!
Lovely_FISH_34@reddit
I don’t believe so. Mainly because the “skip day.” Was when our baseball team made it to finals, and that was like 3 hours away. The school allowed us to skip ONLY if we showed them or off that we went. I didn’t go but it was a chill day at school anyway. I did graduate 2021 so that whole year is kinda fuzzy to me tbh.
corruptpeach@reddit
no, we were told if we did, we couldn't attend graduation
PopularRush3439@reddit
Yes
Rattlingplates@reddit
I skipped more than 50 times my senior year so yeah lol
RambunctiousFungus@reddit
Yeah, a couple times a week..
DieHardAmerican95@reddit
Yup.
TheUltimateXYZ@reddit
It's been a long time, but if I remember right, either I did, or some idiot told the principal what day it was going to be, and ruined it for everyone.
mojdojo@reddit
That was the one day I did not skip, but then I was contrary like that back then.
Kotetsuya@reddit
My High school made Senior Skip day a festival of sorts. We had a large courtyard in the middle of our campus, and the school would rent all sorts of activities for seniors (and lower classmen on lunch) to enjoy throughout the day. You could leave if you wanted at any time, or you could stay, enjoy a day of fun with your friends, and close out your time at k-12 on a high note.
It was great. There were inflatable obstacle courses, water slights, and a Tug-o-war game. There was music, grills churning out hot-dogs, hamburgers, free soda, ice cream, etc. Over all just a really fun time.
EarlyBirdWithAWorm@reddit
No, they made it the only day we could pickup our prom tickets
little_runner_boy@reddit
Nah, I was too much of a nerd
SpreadsheetSiren@reddit
Same here. Those of us who did show had a pretty decent day because the teachers knew about it and didn’t much care at that point. They were happy to have some time to catch up on paperwork with only 8-10 kids in the class.
One teacher brought in donuts. One had a couple of board games. In another some of us helped with some end of year filing. A particularly popular teacher had the juice to get the TV/VCR for the period and showed a few sessions of “Friday Night Videos” (which was like MTV for kids who didn’t have cable).
As long as there wasn’t any trouble, I don’t think administration even cared.
flipz4444@reddit
I had a statistics teacher who was notorious for knowing when senior skip day would happen and would do funny shit to fuck with the students. The day before we planned to skip he told our class that we should probably be there the next day.
Luckily for me it was the last class of the day so we all skipped the first 7 periods and then came in for just his class. He gave us 5 pop quizzes that day totaling a big part of the grade, and I can't remember what exactly the questions were, but each quiz was one simple question, like, "what is your name" or "what is this class called".
Everyone in class showed up except one of my friends and his grade took a big hit, but looking back I don't think it really would've mattered as I believe we were all already accepted into college.
AliMcGraw@reddit
Selective colleges will rescind admission for something like your friend did!
donuttrackme@reddit
Good ol' senioritis.
Square-Dragonfruit76@reddit
I was a nerd too, but my other nerd friends convinced me to do it.
Kineth@reddit
This for me too.
Also, I skipped other days earlier in the year.
JonnyMike27@reddit
same
AllswellinEndwell@reddit
Never missed a day of school from the 7th grade on. It just seemed easier to go.
SectionAcceptable607@reddit
Same. Didn’t even know there was a skip day until it happened.
Matrimcauthon7833@reddit
I didn't, but I did it because I'm an asshole and none of my teachers knew what to do with me because I was the only one from my grade so they basically made me go to the library but then I had to go to the next class and get the deer in the headlights look from each teacher. It was great
jezreelite@reddit
Same here. I also didn't have a car and was living in a really boring small city where there was nothing interesting to do anyway.
Witty-Ad5743@reddit
A number of my friends did, but I didn't bother.
Familiar-Ad-1965@reddit
We did not have such a day
thesecrettolifeis42@reddit
Yes. Unfortunately, I also thought of non-skip days as skip days, as well. I honestly don't know how I graduated. I do know that it wasn't with honors, nor was I in the top 75%. Undiagnosed AuDHD sucked. What am I saying...diagnosed AuDHD sucks, too.
hawffield@reddit
I made my Senior Skip Day a “Senior Skip Year”. Took concurrent classes at a community college during the summer after my junior year and didn’t have to go to high school for my senior year. Didn’t even go to graduation.
If I was in high school, I don’t know if I would or wouldn’t have came during Senior Skip Day. Probably would have came to school anyways because I’m a dork.
LukeMayeshothand@reddit
Yes.
mtnlady@reddit
Yes of course
elveebee22@reddit
No, my school was way too aware of it and ready to hand out Saturday detentions lol (or should I say JUG - any other Jesuit school attendees here? 💀)
Bonch_and_Clyde@reddit
Jesuit school attendees though I guess a different Jesuit school. We had PH's.
elveebee22@reddit
Lol what did that stand for? JUG is Justice Under God 💀💀
Bonch_and_Clyde@reddit
Penance Hall. We had to copy from the student handbook for an hour after school.
_oscar_goldman_@reddit
Yeah we couldn't get away with shit. Our school was large enough, with enough degenerates among us, that there weren't enough "custodial" JUGs (cleaning lunch tables, clapping erasers, etc.) to go around, so standard JUG was writing out 500 minus 2 plus 1 until you got to 0. Took you about an hour, and your hand hurt like a bitch.
We had maybe 20 guys who didn't show up the Monday after prom, and they were all basically incarcerated until they had diplomas in hand.
Huge_Policy_6517@reddit
Yup it wasn't an official day but the teachers didn't bother anything big for that day. I even remember one changing the due date for something because it landed on senior skip day. Made for a relaxing day my junior year since a lot of classes were with the seniors
DJDualScreen@reddit
My senior class was so fucking disorganized that we didn't do half the shit seniors are supposed to do. Hell, they flubbed the damn senior prank.
cats_and_tats84@reddit
Yup! Spent the day at my friend’s house, swimming in their pool.
Betorah@reddit
No. My mother wouldn’t let me as I had already missed too many days of school that year.
mustang6172@reddit
By the time I was a senior, skip day coincided with the class trip.
Snake_-_Eater@reddit
You could say that
Although senior skip day was also every day for me
Hey-Kristine-Kay@reddit
Yep, my cousin and I went to the beach. I’m sure my parents knew lmao I was too good of a kid to actually sneak out.
VisionAri_VA@reddit
No, because I didn’t want a zero and showing up to class got you dismissed after about 5 minutes, anyway.
latx5@reddit
I didn’t.
A friend of mine didn’t either, because he asked his mom for permission. She didn’t think it sounded real, so she called the school to confirm. lols
What a dweeb.
PDXgoodgirl@reddit
Yep
Klutzy-Piglet-9221@reddit
They told us we'd be suspended if we skipped.
So we hijacked the school PA system and played Spike Jones records.
(1970s)
Tyrelea@reddit
I didn’t. I had four years of perfect attendance so I didn’t want to ruin it. I don’t remember it being that big anyway
moosemoose214@reddit
Just a day?
IDreamOfCommunism@reddit
Several times. lol
babybird87@reddit
Yes.. got drunk
marksman81991@reddit
I wasn’t able to. One of my classes would fail us if gone that day. BS
travelinmatt76@reddit
My school made it an official day. There was a park next to the school that
SaltpeterTaffy@reddit
I was the only one in my class who didn't. It was a fascinating experience. Some of my teachers let me out early. One of them outright shooed me away. One of them appreciated my integrity, and we just talked about video games. I was a senior back in 2005. People her age being into video games was still rare back then.
Dakota1228@reddit
Yes
Longjumping_Event_59@reddit
Nope. We didn’t have a “Senior Skip Day”.
Gex2-EnterTheGecko@reddit
I did, honestly it was pretty boring.
tor29c@reddit
Absolutely! It was the Monday after prom. We went to the beach for the day.
EmotionalFlounder715@reddit
Yes. We had an official one and an unofficial one. No risk to ditch on either day really. Are they going to give 800 kids detention?
gatorhinder@reddit
I don't even remember. I guess that kind of shows how unimportant HS is in the long run.
Plenty-Daikon1121@reddit
Yep - and the school called EVERY SINGLE PARENT and snitched.
Luckily I was a good kid and this was the first time I'd ever done any rule breaking, so my parent's just laughed it off then told the school I was excused.
They did try to send a few kids to detention over it.
Context: it was a Catholic Highschool
moonbunnychan@reddit
I went to an INCREDIBLY strict school and they were not having it. They made it clear that everyone who participated would be given detention or worse. Most people were like "they can't possibly punish all of us" but they did, in fact, punish anyone who participated.
jfchops2@reddit
Friends and I told our parents look, we all have ~4.0 or better weighted GPAs, we've never been in trouble, we earned our way out of our BS final exams, and we're taking our AP exams seriously. We are going to skip a couple days of school to go have fun, we'd appreciate your blessing so we can make it an overnight trip. They allowed it, told the school who protested it, and basically told the school to get over it. It was awesome
Weightmonster@reddit
Odd. Most or all the parents already knew. The day after the senior Homeroom teachers would collect the excuse notes supposedly written by parents. I’m sure there were some that weren’t but almost all parents knew and had no problem with it. (It was always the Monday after senior prom).
My excuse note said we were on a college visit. We took a trip to a big city and noticed/passed by a few colleges.
Others said it was a “family trip” or my child wasn’t feeling well. Some even mentioned “senioritis.”
sharpshooter999@reddit
See now my school did what was called "Senior Sneak." Basically, each class starting their freshman year would do fundraisers. At the end of our senior, we would use that money to basically plan our own field trip. Water parks, theme parks, laser tag, go karts, generally whatever within reason. A couple teachers went along as chaperones and drove us around using a school bus. It wasn't mandatory, but would you rather spend your day at school, or a day off with your friends mini-golfing and going to an arcade?
I should note, we went to a rural school, where each grade has an average of 15 students in it. Sooo taking an entire grade to a theme park is way more doable than in big cities
causeyouresilly@reddit
Ha, I guess I never realized parents didn't know. I told them I was going and they were cool with it.
Ok-Narwhal-8499@reddit
Same, since I knew they were gonna get a call from the office
AmmoSexualBulletkin@reddit
No. They weren't going to let us graduate if we did it. Instead we showed up and didn't really do anything but exist where we were supposed to.
I didn't go to a private, religious, or similar school. Normal public school. They were just assholes.
Ohhhjeff@reddit
Yes, we all drove to Houston Woods in Oxford, OH (about 35 miles north of school) to hangout, swim in lake and drink beer. It was the annual senior skip day tradition
BeckQ47@reddit
No, our senior skip day became senior skip the last two months of school because of COVID.
Devee@reddit
No, but I just didn’t go to school when I didn’t want to go to school
Footnotegirl1@reddit
Yes, absolutely. Our whole class took the day off together and hung out and had a barbecue in a public park. (This is soemwhat less impressive than it sounds, we were an all girl's school, and there were only 62 of us)
EpicSlothToes@reddit
I considered it but I went anyway and very much enjoyed the vibes, there was just me and like 1 or 2 kids per class (aside from the electives which had sophomores and juniors in it also) we just kind of chilled and we're shooting the shit with the teacher for 50 minutes.
Revolutionary-Gas122@reddit
Yes, i remember we this. Main thing skip day was not a scheduled day, but our call.
OpinionExisting3306@reddit
I did. 3 times.
piekid@reddit
If we even had one, I doubt I participated. I do not recall.
kill4b@reddit
Everyday was senior skip day 😆
Appropriate-Let-283@reddit
I'm going into my Senior year this upcoming school year, and I'm planning on participating.
Fkw710@reddit
Yes Teachers strike for a whole week . Good time to skip class
assassinslick@reddit
I didnt have many classes senior year so i think i just didnt have class that day. My freshman year the teachers were on strike so i didnt go for like 2 weeks because only scabs were there.
HoldOnHelden@reddit
I never heard of this but my senior class was 13 of us in a new building with lots of extra rooms so we participated in Senior Skip Whenever Screw You Miss Cap.
Torchic336@reddit
I did, there was a big party the night before that around 2/3 of our class went to, and then a grill out the next day that like 1/4 of our class went to. My class was notably like 90 students.
TRLK9802@reddit
No, I didn't even consider it.
Asavery91@reddit
Hell I participated in not senior skip day, skip day
mamaleigh05@reddit
Yes, but we got busted at a keg party that day and had to make it up polishing candlesticks and cleaning the school “church”. Of course we met and had a party before. Miss the 80’s.
TheArkedWolf@reddit
We technically didn’t have an official one, but yeah. On the day people labeled senior skip day, I participated and hung out with one of my friends. We went to the movies and ate at Firehouse Subs. Fun day overall.
SirCharlito44@reddit
I had my own senior skip day once every few weeks. No one else knew it was senior skip day and I wasn’t a senior I just hated school. Turns out I became a teacher after I graduated lol.
dear-mycologistical@reddit
Yes. Literally everyone else did it, to the point where one of my teachers informed us she was going to skip class that day too, even though the school made a point of announcing that they did not endorse Senior Skip Day. So if I hadn't skipped, I would have just gone to sit in an empty classroom by myself.
The_Book-JDP@reddit
I believe my parents would kill me dead in the most horrific way possible if I ever skipped school so I never did. Found out years later that my mom would have been okay with me skipping at least one day since I never gave her any trouble, never have her any reason to question her trust in me, and when I was home sick, I still did all of my chores plus the added ones she gave me since I “wasn’t doing anything” while I was at home. A lot of good this information did for me now that I’m no longer in school. Kind of pissed me off but what are you gonna do?
lmgst30@reddit
Senior skip day was the only time I ever skipped, in all four years. Mom gave me permission. But gosh darn if I wasn't terrified to ask her.
Total_Ad5137@reddit
No, I had IB tests that day. The ppl not part of the IB program did participate.
eemanand33n@reddit
Almost every day was senior skip day for me
Sparkle8022@reddit
Yes, for us it was the Monday after prom. Theoretically it was because we were all exhausted from prom, but underclassmen still went to school so Idk?
_Bon_Vivant_@reddit
I participated in freshman skip day, sophomore skip day, junior skip day, and senior skip day. And a lot of other skip days.
Fantastic-Bit7657@reddit
Yes, went to the beach on a cloudy day with like 30+ people
LeckereKartoffeln@reddit
I skipped it by going to college instead lol
Wesperado@reddit
Bro, I lied to my guidance counselor about my parents kicking me out to get into a work program so I only had 3 classes my entire senior year. Half of my last year in high school was senior skip day, lmao
Plastic-Agent-1970@reddit
It was May 2020 so we just didn’t attend our zoom classes that day
Winnipesaukee@reddit
I was the idiot who decided to pile on four math classes my senior year, and the two classes I had that semester had teachers that gave tests that day. Also, the headmaster of my school was a disciplinarian and made it clear you would not be walking in graduation if you did that.
Appropriate-Owl7205@reddit
No, my senior of high school the district ran out of money and the last day of class was 6 weeks early about two weeks before senior skip day.
Old-Door1057@reddit
Everyday is skip day for seniors
SpeechAcrobatic9766@reddit
We called it senior ditch day, and I did not.
dausone@reddit
Skip day? What the what? I thought everyone called it ditch day. 🤔
IceCreamChillinn@reddit
No, I ended up getting a shit ton of extra credit in like three of my classes for being one of the few to stay
stuff-1@reddit
We finished everything (exams, etc) a week before the other high school grades, so we were simply done & didn't have to come to school on the last week. They called that Seniors Skip Week.
Cicada_Killer@reddit
Every other day was senior skip day.
Dazzling-Climate-318@reddit
No, we didn’t have one back then.
Most-Silver-4365@reddit
Yes
Lopsided-Ad-126@reddit
Every day was senior skip day as far as I was concerned
Eureecka@reddit
LOL. Yes. My mom and I went to the flea market and to lunch but while I was in the bathroom at the Arby’s, my superintendent came in. They had so many kids not show up to school that they came looking for us.
So I hid in the bathroom while he had lunch with my mom. Not the way we thought we’d spend our afternoon.
Ppl_r_bad@reddit
I graduated as a sophomore at Christmas Break. So I enjoyed 3 senior skip days. All at 6 flags over GA
No_Economics5296@reddit
Yep. I was a nerd who almost always followed the rules. But not this time. I drove my car with three friends to the beach (2 hours away). We didn't do anything crazy. Just laid on the beach, took an ice chest (I don't think there was any alcohol) and enjoyed our time away from school. My parents were cool with it because they knew I wouldn't do anything foolish. Sent me an excuse note the next day. Yeah, boring story I know. I saved the more outlandish stuff for college.
Ok-Refrigerator-9041@reddit
Do did people who Graduated in 2020 senior skip the zoom calls
DawaLhamo@reddit
Ours was official, so it doesn't really count as skipping school. We all went out to different businesses to solicit donations for Operation Graduation door prizes.
RealKaiserRex@reddit
Nope cause we didn’t have one. Class of 2020, baby.
snekome2@reddit
I was class of 2021, so not much happened my senior year.
AttemptingToGeek@reddit
3 years in a row!
bunkumsmorsel@reddit
It wasn’t a thing where I was.
typical_baystater@reddit
My senior skip day was the day the world shut down for COVID. Took it a bit too literally
harlemjd@reddit
Yup. Went to the Franklin Institute with my friends and ran around like we were kids. Great day.
LightningMan711@reddit
I did, only because I didn't want to be at school when they discovered what the other seniors did for the senior prank.
evelynmtz821@reddit
Heck yeah! I ditched school and went to take care of my FFA steer on the other side of the high school.
invinciblewalnut@reddit
I did, but our administration kind of knew about it and okayed it lol. We went to a theme park and met in the schools parking lot beforehand, and our principal came out to tell us to be safe lol
punkwalrus@reddit
No.
Some teachers would have quizzes that day on purpose. But, with so few students, most teachers just said "fuck it" and let the few kids who did show up do whatever.
Plus, personally, school kept me away from home. Home life was bad.
Particular-Move-3860@reddit
No, I have never heard of anything like that.
We had protest days or demonstration days. They didn't involve the whole school or even a whole graduation class. They were just days when a sizable portion of the student body was absent because they were all attending and participating in something that was more important and urgent, something not just for them.
Tonubba-nabubba@reddit
I did. We had a party at the lake.
nochickflickmoments@reddit
No, The school gave us a senior breakfast instead. Was pretty nice spread.
Annual-Duck5818@reddit
My mom was a teacher at my school, so no, no I didn’t.
frr_Vegeta@reddit
I don't remember if there was a set day for it but I picked my own senior skip day to watch The Matrix Reloaded in our local theater.
reflectorvest@reddit
My school did not have one, so no
Djsimba25@reddit
Yeah, we all got drunk at my buddy's house who had a pool. We couldn't get too drunk though because we had to go back to school for the class picture. Idk who picked the day, or if the school figured out the day and scheduled the picture on it but I remember being annoyed and nervous avoiding all my coaches and not talking to any teachers lol
door-harp@reddit
No, it was the same day as the AP Calc test 🤓🫣
Bonch_and_Clyde@reddit
We did not have a senior skip day.
BoseSounddock@reddit
Yes
ronshasta@reddit
I did senior skip week lmao
Gold-Leather8199@reddit
About 30 guys and girls went to a small lake, load music, beer, oh yea, the police,
Lovemybee@reddit
Oh, yeah! I had a car, and it was in the 70s, so... 🤪
Over-Marionberry-686@reddit
I graduated early so I was already dondeded
annswertwin@reddit
Yes everyone met in a park and drank beer, played frisbee and hacky sack and fed the geese around the pond and hung out.
BloodOfJupiter@reddit
Yes, pretty tame, Went to IHOP
FickleVirgo@reddit
Yes! Granted I had a class of less than 50 in the rural PNW, but we ALL carpooled and went to a campground by the lake about 2 hours away. We drank (and more), we danced, we walked through fire, we skinny dipped, I mean full on rager type of event. Everyone had a blast, we all slept in our vehicles and when we woke up the next morning shared what we had brought for food amongst us as breakfast, then all drove home. I felt like it was the last time I ever really cared to be with my classmates before I graduated. It gets brought up at reunions and you can see in everyone's eyes how fondly we all remember that day/night.
Longjumping_Toe_7490@reddit
Covid got us
AliMcGraw@reddit
No. My (public) HS was serious about college prep and while there WAS a "senior skip day" when people went to the local amusement park, it was mostly burnouts and juniors. Seniors were all there taking their exams and attending classes so their top college didn't rescind their admissions.
There were definitely "senior bad behavior days" but they were NOT on school days (Saturdays were best so you could recover on Sunday), and there was always a spate of parties the week after graduation where shit went down.
IHaveBoxerDogs@reddit
Yes. And we all knew not to go to the beach because rumor had it truant officers were patrolling there. (As an adult I realize that was BS.)
Individual-Money-734@reddit
Yes we went to an amusement park ( Cedar Point) Its tradition .
ConfidentBread3748@reddit
At least once a week.
Far-Reporter-1596@reddit
I feel like my whole class did, now I’m wondering if anyone showed up and the teachers were pissed because they thought they had the day and/or classes off.
Traditional_Entry183@reddit
Nope. Only missed two days of high school when I was legitimately very ill.
StretchJazzlike6122@reddit
Same only missed school when I was sick. But I was out for three weeks in sophomore year I got so sick. I got mono! (Not from kissing anyone though…sharing drinks/straws also spreads mono)
StretchJazzlike6122@reddit
Private school kid ;)
Our ditch day was planned in advanced and ok’d by the teachers. We got together and had sushi, went on a bike ride, and went on peddle boats (it was an extremely small class). We were within a mile of the school anyway 🤣🤷♀️ pretty sure it was close to our annual drama club play and we still went back for drama club and rehearsals that day. What responsible kids we were.
CoulsonsMay@reddit
There was rumblings of a few different senior skip days throughout the years. Teachers would hear about it, schedule big tests on those days.
Teachers and admin were smart about it. “look guys, for every person that doesn’t show up each day, we lose x amount of dollars. So we’ll plan a senior day, where all you have to do is show up and let us take attendance so we can get paid. we’ll bus you to this park 20 min away with a skate park, pools, sports, we’ll BBQ, and you can get your yearbooks a week before the rest of the school. You can leave after lunch on your own or we’ll bus you back to school at normal time. If more than a x% of students skip on these unofficial days, we cancel it all.”
Honestly, I didn’t really care either way, skip or not, but I appreciated the honesty. It was about the money from the state and district. Fair enough. So I did the park thing and got my senior yearbook a week early and chilled with my friends for a day.
coop999@reddit
No. We didn't have an official one. Some of the seniors declared an unofficial one for the victory parade for the St. Louis Rams Superbowl win, but I didn't go to it.
CuriosThinker@reddit
Yep
Pensacouple@reddit
Yes, usually once a week or so.
SkyPork@reddit
Nope. I don't remember that ever being a thing.
merylbouw@reddit
Yup
chaboomboom@reddit
I didnt, dont recall if I knew about it or not, but I do know it was a nice quiet school day that I just read novels during
Nervous-Narwhal-1175@reddit
I almost got expelled my senior year for taking too many skip days!
tandabat@reddit
We had an “unofficial” senior ditch day- I went to the zoo. We also had an official senior fun day when we went to a small local amusement park.
PsxDcSquall@reddit
I graduated in 2005, our senior skip day was May 5th (so 05/05/05). That was also unfortunately the same day as the AP English exam so I was unable to participate in senior skip day.
Either-Youth9618@reddit
I was going to but there was a field trip that day so I went on that instead. It was something calm, like an art museum and then being set loose downtown for a few hours for lunch.
sharpshooter999@reddit
Our senior day IS a field trip that the seniors plan. Go karts, laser tag, mini-golf, theme parks, etc. Granted, we had to plan and pay for it ourselves, but each grade does fundraisers throughout high-school for that exact outing. Plus, each grade has 15 people in it lol, way more doable than big city schools
Either-Youth9618@reddit
That sounds fun! My school was much larger (about 2,000 kids in 2002) so it wouldn't have worked for us.
kdummer@reddit
Yes, but only because I ended up being sick on that day.
youcancallmet@reddit
Yes. Class of 2000. Went to Six Flags for the day with a bunch of friends.
AshDenver@reddit
Kind of. I mean, I didn’t go to school but I did tell my dad (sole parent) that it was senior skip day.
Karen (yes, really) and I did ride around and grab an orange traffic cone or two. Then, the rest of the day was watching tv.
NervousDiscount9393@reddit
Mine was scheduled for literally a week after the Covid lockdown started..
KyorlSadei@reddit
I think so. Still got in trouble. Oh well.
Pied_Kindler@reddit
I went just because I knew there wouldn't be anyone there and that all of the teachers would let me go hang out in the library all day instead. I was a library aide so I had special privileges there. It was my favorite place to be.
Expensive_Repair2735@reddit
Yep. We got in trouble because we all slipped the first Friday of the school year and got letters sent home about how important it was we didn't skip. Lol. But I graduated in 2003 and we took our "official" day on March 3rd, 03-03-03.
windowschick@reddit
Yeah. It was an official day off. Right before exam week though, so I spent the day studying and finishing up a project.
NotTheATF1993@reddit
Yeah, it was the day before spring break, and we ended up not going back to school at all because of covid. I guess I'm still technically on senior skip day 5 years later.
WinterKnigget@reddit
Nope. No one told me. But I was also a bullied shut in, so that makes sense
BasketFair3378@reddit
We turned it into a burnout day along the side of the school. Auto shop disconnected rear brakes. Smoke em if you got em boys. I'm referring to the tires but our high school was called R U HIGH! True story. Go Panthers.
Lovinthesea3@reddit
YES, I took advantage of every classes senior skip day once I entered HS. As a sophomore, junior, and of course a senior! Good times!
MohaveZoner@reddit
I took a skip day whenever I felt like it.
GetOffMyLawnYaPunk@reddit
At my HS, Seniors got out a week earlier than everyone else anyway. We were specifically told to stay away or they would make us come back.
ViolinistSimilar4760@reddit
We had to donate blood. I did, passed out and threw up in front of all my friends. Best part was when I came to, that damn needle was still taking my red stuff out of my body! It was an epic moment for me, tbh.
Ruateddybear2@reddit
Yes, and you can’t prove anything…
Mysterious-Meat7712@reddit
I skipped regularly. So senior skip day was just a day that I had more friends to hang out with during the day. My senior year was fairly simple. I has a teachers assistant for 3/8 of my classes, a variation of gym for 2/3, welding for 2/3, and then my senior English class. I wasn’t required to be IN class for most of them. So I wouldn’t go. Senior skip day we all went swimming at the lake.
Mistermxylplyx@reddit
Many times.
MohneyinMo@reddit
Hell, we hired a band and had a party in an empty pasture. One guy had a Chevy S-10 pickup, he lined the bed with plastic and filled it with ice and kegs of beer.
OkConsequence5992@reddit
Yes, I haven’t thought about that for a long time. I’m surprised my parents didn’t try to stop me
Classic_Cauliflower4@reddit
My class planned a senior skip day and didn’t bother to let me know.
Joke’s on them: I took my own skip day and didn’t invite them along.
Gracefulchemist@reddit
Yes. A bunch of us just went to the zoo then got frozen custard. It was great! The administration tried to discourage us by saying anyone who skipped wouldn't walk in graduation, but we called their bluff. We knew they wouldn't want to deal with 100s of angry parents and they wouldn't follow through if enough of us did it; collective action for the win.
Well_Spoken_Mute@reddit
Yes I did participate and it was the same year the song Senior Skip Day by Mac Miller came out. Went to the beach and played that song (and entire KIDS album) on repeat
rolyoh@reddit
No. I had a good GPA and didn't care about being popular.
Ihasknees936@reddit
I graduated in 2020 so I didn't even have school for the last 3 months of my senior year. We had a class shirt made with "senior skip day champions" written on it though.
roadrobber@reddit
Yes freshman, sophomore and junior year, I dropped out before made it my official senior skip day
Less_Vacation_3507@reddit
Yes we had a beer keg up in the Rampart Range and it was a wild party. When I got home I mowed our large yard to keep outside where my parents could not smell it on me. Was in 1977.
themcp@reddit
We didn't have skip day when I was in high school.
_Hickory@reddit
Nope. I was dual enrolled, taking AP classes, in sports, and theater. I had too many things I needed and wanted to skip.
ThePurplePanda420@reddit
I went to an structured online school (campuses with rooms full of computers with teachers that were good at certain subjects to help) and I took bi annual skip days. Twice a year I'd just go hang out downtown all day. My teachers were always cool with it though, I was the only one out of my friend's that was always there every day for the amount of time required doing more work than I really needed to in a day. I graduated early.
TzeroJah0@reddit
My dad would have ripped my arms off and beat me to death with them.
Maddad_666@reddit
Yea we fish bowled my Chevette and went to the beach.
virtualpig@reddit
Yes, although my experience was probably a bit different. I went to a small high school and it wasn't mandatory in so many words but it was special ed and it felt like you were being judged on your social activities as much as your grades, so it kinda felt like you had to do it.
We all went and saw the movie Troy. As far as films go it was pretty awful.
gsquaredbotics@reddit
I wasn't allowed even though there ended up being 3 (totally not still salty about it many years later)
Impossible_Tea181@reddit
Our school supported it. We planned a trip to a nice lake park, planned a catered dinner and a live band for dancing, in a hall on the grounds. Then two guys went out on the lake in a canoe, tipped it over, one swam back to get help, the other died of exposure in the cold water. That was my senior sneak day and it was also the last senior sneak day for my school. My class had a life size mascot of our school built with the moneys that we had refunded to us. We dedicated it to the classmate who lost his life that day. I went back for my 50 year class reunion and the life-size mascot is still at the main entrance to our high school.
SirMayday1@reddit
Yup. It's been 24 years and it remains memorable.
BoukenGreen@reddit
Nope. I had already used up my allotment of parent excused absences. But that save me in Senior English as we only had 5 people in class that day for a pop quiz in which our teacher pretty much gave us the answer and said he did not want to be one of the ones in our class who had the take the make up. It took my last grading period grade from a 25 to a 35. Which let me test good enough on my final to bring my semester grade to passing.
Occams_rusty_razor@reddit
I was very nerdy and among the last anyone would guess who would skip school. But I did it anyway because by this time of year I had already turned 18 and we had heard if you were 18 or older you could write your own excuse slip (as opposed to a parent). I did just that and turned it in. There was no fuss about it. I had a great day off from school.
TopperMadeline@reddit
No, but my high school did (or still does?) have a tradition called “Senior Walkout”. On one of the final days of school, the senior class lines up on the third floor and slowing walks down to the first floor, with teachers and other students hugging them and such.
Jswazy@reddit
I participated in the max allowable skips before having to go to makeup Saturday school to pass.
logalogalogalog_@reddit
Not at all. I was a big nerd and school was my safe place. I was homeless at the time, too, so I didn't really have much of a place to skip to.
DizzyLead@reddit
In high schooner in the early ‘90s, I was a video production dork, so any sort of “ditching” (as we called it) meant spending the period (or day in this case) in the school studio, goofing around with cameras and editors or just watching TV.
Efficient_Advice_380@reddit
Our official day was the day the Juniors took the SAT and freshmen/sophomores took the PSAT. It was a non-attendance day for seniors anyways
mrmonster459@reddit
Yes. At our school, "senior skip day" was almost mandatory, to the point where our teachers would openly tell us that all they'd do is put on a movie or something for the few people who didn't participate.
TrixieLurker@reddit
Since for me it was back in the early Nineties, it was called 'Senior Ditch Day', and it wasn't an official school event, but all the staff from the principle down accepted it was going to happen so no one would be in trouble whoever was left didn't have to do much of anything (including underclassmen who may share a class with seniors for those classes).
Shoshawi@reddit
Lmao seems they were smart about it. A bit of reverse psychology plus saving themselves some trouble by not covering anything important that they needed people to know to understand the rest of the chapter. A+
mmlickme@reddit
Senior skip day is usually after teachers have handed out the last thing they’re going to grade for that class. Everyone who’s going to college in the fall is already accepted by the time skip day comes up, everything that “counts” has been tallied long ago (ranks are probably finalized, final GPAs, etc, shit has to be submitted a couple weeks or days before graduation) literally seniors just have to wait around.
jfchops2@reddit
In the last few weeks of senior year, nobody gives a shit about the class material anymore and the teachers know it. I'd hope they weren't sitting on anything they actually wanted to teach until that late in the year
Can't speak for anyone else but my high school let you skip final exams before graduation if you had a B or better in the class going into them. So after the last midterm exam, all we had to do was remain on top of homework and we were done. Still had to study for APs, but that's not the school's problem anymore if you fail one of those because you didn't take it seriously
Shoshawi@reddit
To be honest I didn’t remember when Senior Skip Day was… I probably would have skipped it regardless haha
Not sure if we did any exam skipping, I think the teacher would decide that where I was. I did have one class that was “if you don’t show up a certain % of the time, you must ace the exam to pass”. One buddy of mine and me were the only ones there haha. It was the morning block, so I slept in and studied at home 🤷♀️
TMulharin@reddit
My economics teacher brought in an electric griddle to cook pancakes and eggs for those of us who did come in.
He also put on an episode of Bar Rescue as the "lesson".
He also gave the kids that showed up some bonus class currency.
He was a cool guy.
Weightmonster@reddit
Was it a specific day?
catsandalpacas@reddit
Same at my school, the teachers even told us which day it was 🤣
kidthorazine@reddit
I mean, I can also see from the teachers' perspective that they don't want to waste time if most of the class isn't going to be there.
sopranopanda@reddit
No, I wasn't cool enough to know when they were (we had several) so I'd just show up to class one day and be the only person there
Adorable_Ad_7639@reddit
Yes, I don’t really even remember what we did. I skipped school a lot in general.
shrimpynut@reddit
Yup, I remember one of my friends actually went to school and there was like two other people there. I practically zone out senior year of high school as soon I learned that I guaranteed for graduation and got into college.
Strict-Fig-5956@reddit
Yes, I skipped every single day actually.
BygoneHearse@reddit
We had a whole week we skipped. Basically after our finals results came in we just got to do whatever if you passed.
Odd_Garden_3940@reddit
I went to a boarding school in the middle of a desert. There wasn’t anywhere to skip to
GapAdditional8455@reddit
My dad was the maintenance man at my high school. I was sitting in the cafeteria before school started and he walked up, gave me some money, and told me to have fun. I went to the beach with some friends and had an absolute blast.
USAF_Retired2017@reddit
My dad (assistant school superintendent) made me stay until noon so I wasn’t counted absent. This is was in the 90s so no cell phones. All my friends were partying somewhere but I had no idea where because I couldn’t get a hold of them. Thanks dad.
ProfessionalAngle971@reddit
I participated in that even when it wasn’t Senior Skip Day. Seemed like there were a lot of those days
STS986@reddit
Yes, there was a big keg party and wiffle ball tournament with a cash prize. Shirts were made and sold as a memento. They said senior skip day, the year, school and had art a student made
TheMazoo@reddit
That wasn't a thing at my school
Fire_Mission@reddit
Yes. We went to the beach and drank beer. Good times.
Square-Dragonfruit76@reddit
Lame. We went to the beach and a lot of the women took their tops off.
Pac_Eddy@reddit
We went out to a patch of forest in a corn field and dream beer. It worked well - only a few people knew where it was so no one could snitch.
KansansKan@reddit
We had an unauthorized “Senior Skip Day” back in the 60s. Being a rule follower, I went to school only to discover many senior weren’t there so I went to the office to say I was leaving. But I was told not showing up for school was an absence but coming to school then leaving was TRUANCY!😳 (I spent the day packing away books for close of school & feeling very stupid! 😊
Such_Chemistry3721@reddit
Yes, but my mom actually checked me out for that afternoon anyway. That was pretty common for the kids who wouldn't typically have skipped.
waynofish@reddit
Hell yea! And even made a few of my own official skip days or not return after lunch days.
N7ShadowKnight@reddit
No. We had many “senior skip days” but none were official or excused, and if you missed less than 2 days of class then you got to drop your lowest grade in each class so it really wasnt worth it.
YakOk2818@reddit
Nah. Back then did it when we wanted
Lemfan46@reddit
My senior skip day was my 18th birthday, when I called myself out for the day.
011011010110110@reddit
i got my acceptance letter in like.. October, and kind of went to high school after that. mainly just physically
evil_burrito@reddit
Frequently
Akimbobear@reddit
No, maybe not a square, square but quadrilateral for sure. That’s a shape with four sides, dumb-dumbs.
BrainDad-208@reddit
Of course! Carloads of us went to an amusement park in the next state.
Rose_E_Rotten@reddit
Out of 7 classes only 2 had barely any kids, the rest of my classes were juniors or sophomores. I took the bus too so obviously I had to go to school, or my brother would have said something to mom.
a_filing_cabinet@reddit
All my friends made plans without me, and my parents would have thrown a fit if they found me at home. I didn't have the energy to go do something by myself so I just had a normal school day. Most of my classes were decently mixed between juniors and seniors so it's not like the class was empty, just about a third gone.
KapowBlamBoom@reddit
It rained cats and dogs so a couple of us actually went to school. There were like 10 seniors there.
We got to just sit in the cafeteria and play cards all day
SpecialSet163@reddit
Of cou4se.
mmmm_whatchasay@reddit
No. It was scheduled the same day as the AP stats exam. Even teachers were like “hey, that’s kind of fucked up that your classmates can’t skip that day when there are so many other options,” but alas. I got college credit for it though and my friends who did skip just kid of sat around so I didn’t miss much.
devilbunny@reddit
We didn’t have one, official or otherwise. I doubt any of our parents would have cared in the last 9-week term, but after AP exams, school was mostly a social thing anyway. It’s not as though there was a lot else to do during the day that would be fun and yet not attract police attention.
Chrestys@reddit
Absolutely.
Sufficient_Ant67@reddit
No, It was talked about but the people who skipped didn’t do anything special but stay home.
We were located in the car dependent suburbs and 4 hours from the nearest beach, and I would’ve been bored at home so I just went to school.
MachineProof5438@reddit
Yes, when I was a sophomore
wrong-landscape-1328@reddit
I did. I think it's a right of passage for all seniors.
thunnus0@reddit
Yep!! Ours were called Ditch Daze, there were two of them in a row and we camped out at Deckers or, if you were a real G, Lost Creek. You know who you are.
yukonnut@reddit
Yeah, we had a ditch day. It was awesome.
NaughtyLittleDogs@reddit
No. My school told us if we skipped the last day, we couldn't walk at Commencement. They also told us we would get our diploma if we threw our cap at graduation. My school was not messing around.
Live_Barracuda1113@reddit
Yes, and as a High school teacher, I still see my seniors do it!
GhostOfJamesStrang@reddit
I did, yes.
Though, to be fair, it was not my only skip day....that year or any other.
mmlickme@reddit
lol I skipped so much that by the time skip day came up if I’d participated I wouldn’t have graduated
Top-Temporary-2963@reddit
Fuck no. My dad was very well known in our town, I literally couldn't put my head on my desk for 5 seconds out of boredom without him being told I was sleeping in class. He would've found out immediately and whooped my ass til I couldn't sit for a week.
Sorry-Government920@reddit
Yes but I didn't go to the big party my friends and I went golfing
Professional-Rip561@reddit
Of course. We wanted to do it on our prom day (which was 4/20 - a Friday). They made a rule if you weren’t in at least half your classes that day then you couldn’t go to prom.
Apprehensive_Yard_14@reddit
We didn't have it. Didn't even know it was a thing until I saw it in a movie or TV show as an adult
rckblykitn14@reddit
Yeah, like twice a month 🤣
Marley455@reddit
The official skip day? No. However a group of us would yearly skip school on the Thursday of Carb Day at the Indy 500.
OkSubstance8759@reddit
Ya we went swimming and jumped off a bridge into the water. A dude from another school died jumping off that bridge and they never found him. Saddest shit ever.
TMulharin@reddit
At my school, I took an elective digital film making course through a multi-district program that meant spending half of the day at another location. I had a project that I wanted to get some extra work done on, so I still went in.
And in the "regular" portion of my day, my economics teacher made eggs and pancakes and put on Bar Rescue.
CatOfGrey@reddit
No, but I remember that my economics class (which was generally scheduled only for seniors) had four students out of 30-35 students on a typical day.
funklab@reddit
Yes, but to be fair I also skipped dozens of other day cuz I just wasn’t feeling it.
JadedCycle9554@reddit
We had a beach trip all planned out but admin found out and said anyone absent that day would not be able to walk at graduation. I think a few people went through with it, but it really killed the momentum. I had an "unofficial" one at my mom's house and a few others tried to plan ones but it never recovered.
Bonus fun fact: Admin also pulled me out of class and said they heard I was planning a senior prank and that if I did it they wouldn't let me walk and would withhold my diploma. I wasn't even planning anything. And yes I know they legally can't refuse to give me my diploma, it was a bluff.
jsesq@reddit
I literally gave up algebra for lent my senior year
rdi_caveman@reddit
Yes. Or at least mostly. I attended my last couple of periods because I had a paper due or something like that.
Effective_Stranger85@reddit
I graduated high school in 2003, so my memories are a bit hazy, but I think if you had above a certain GPA you got, like, three free call out days as a senior that wouldn't "count" as official absences. There wasn't any offically sanctioned day for all the seniors to be allowed to skip class, though.
Illustrious-Tax-5439@reddit
Yes, and I "practiced" my junior year!
manderifffic@reddit
It wasn’t a thing. My class was terrible at organizing things. You should see how they fall apart when they try to plan reunions.
therealDrPraetorius@reddit
We didn't have that tradition where I went. We had Lagoon Day, where all the high schools spent the day at our local ammument park.
EffectiveSalamander@reddit
I drank an entire bottle of TJ Swan's apple wine. In retrospect, this was a poor idea.
Firm-Boysenberry@reddit
Yes. We had several senior skip days when lower grades were testing. It mostly involved sleeping late, going out for lunch, and going swimming.
No-Cauliflower-4661@reddit
I graduated a semester early so I missed all the fun end of year things like that. But I spent my days at the beach and Disneyland, so I wasn't too sad about it at the time
Carrotcake1988@reddit
No!! I had a scheduled surgery. I begged the dr. to move it. He agreed, but my mother would not consent.
It was an ugly argument. I’m like there is a reason I don’t live with you.
ViolentSnek_@reddit
No
abbot_x@reddit
No. High school physics classes in my area had an annual field trip to an amusement park. We did some simple experiments on rides and I think went to a lecture. Otherwise we could do whatever we wanted.
So pretty much all seniors taking physics did that, even though at my school and a few others it was the traditional “skip” day (Friday before prom).
h4baine@reddit
Yep a bunch of us went to the zoo and had a picnic
Rumpled_NutSkin@reddit
I didn't. I was in the "nerdy" group in high school, so I just hung out with 4 friends in our engineering teacher's classroom all day building a remote controlled t shirt cannon robot
throwaway2938472321@reddit
You didn't have to take any exams if you had perfect attendance.
Fappy_as_a_Clam@reddit
Yes, many time
Rikishi6six9nine@reddit
My school had a scheduled "senior skip day". So we scheduled one ourselves later on. I think pretty much everyone participated
jfchops2@reddit
It wasn't an old school "we're all gonna secretly not go to school for an entire day" thing but a group of my friends and I did take two weekdays off to road trip to a popular amusement park nearby. We were all "good kids" who got good grades and were never in trouble and we all talked our parents into letting us do it the week before graduation because as soon as school ended, the lines there for roller coasters would be unbearable all summer. We wanted to go during the short period of time it was open while school was in session so we could own the place for two days, and we sure did. It was awesome. So the parents basically told the school "yeah our kids are doing this next week, get over it" and off we went
I did however frequently take some liberties with how long the "shopping" trip took for a senior design class. We had a budget to engineer something and were authorized to leave campus to shop for the class when needed. That'd often turn into a couple hours of lunch and BSing around the local mall during my nonsense classes before heading back for AP in the afternoon
somearcanereference@reddit
Yep. It was the day before prom and such an accepted thing that my mother - a strictly rule-following teacher - left me the car keys and a note reminding me to pick up my flowers.
Feeling_Freedom_4278@reddit
I skipped too much prior to so my mother made me go or she’d ground me and take my keys
Shoddy-Secretary-712@reddit
I generally didn't go to school on Fridays my senior year.
Positive-Newt7220@reddit
We had two! First my friends and i just went shopping at the fancy mall 2 hours away. Second we went to a friends farm (can you guess where i live) and Frank’s and drove golf carts and started things on fire
Longjumping_Duty9882@reddit
Of course. Like three times!
yellowrose04@reddit
I did and my oldest kid did.
MetroBS@reddit
Would have if not for covid
donqon@reddit
I think I had too much going on with AP classes to do it
Lord_Voltan@reddit
Oh Hell Yeah! I still have fantastic memories of driving to a lake with the windows down listing to Bush 16 stone as I am crossing the bridge over the lake. We would hit up a bait shop with fantastic pizza and a no ID policy and get a 12 pack of shitty beer and hike up to a rope swing and spend they day there. The ODNR has since cut it down, but it keeps coming back in iterations.
randypupjake@reddit
Yeah. It was a long trek to get to somewhere to eat off campus but it was worth it to eat fast food than eat on campus for lunch.
g0thfrvit@reddit
Yes it was the Monday after prom. We were all still at the beach.
Weightmonster@reddit
Same.
TehWildMan_@reddit
I did my entire senior year of high school at my local community college
So in a way, that entire year was a giant skip day for me
KaiSaya117@reddit
Nope.
JennyPaints@reddit
No just, junior high school strike day, when they decided to cancel our prom arbitrarily. It actually worked. We were gone an hour and faculty gave in.
nauticalfiesta@reddit
Technically yes, my dad called in sick for me, and my doctor wrote me an excuse for the day for "mental health purposes"
notsosecretshipper@reddit
Nah. I didn't have anything to do anyway and they gave us ice cream if we showed up at school that day.
colt707@reddit
My senior year we did skip day on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend and the Tuesday after so we could have a 5 day party. Turns out you can survive on strictly cheap ass beer for 5 days.
Oceanbreeze871@reddit
I wasn’t cool enough to know when it was.
sharpshooter999@reddit
Yeah. Starting at our freshman year, each grade would do various fundraising events. At the end of our senior year, we used that money to plan a field trip day. Go-karts, game arcades, water and theme parks, etc. A couple teachers would chaperone us and drove us around. We went to a small rural school, my whole senior class had 14 students in it, so it was definitely easier to do than at larger schools. I went to the same school as my dad, and my kids are at the same school now. It's been a thing since the 1960's and is still a thing. Dad's class went a lodge at a lake a spent a weekend on the beach and water skiing. We went to the Henry-Doorly Zoo (on of the top zoos in the world) and go-karting
Weightmonster@reddit
Yes. It was the Monday after prom for us. It was not official though.
anotherdamnscorpio@reddit
Nah I dropped out a few months before that.
dildozer10@reddit
I skipped on senior skip day, but it was far from fun because I went to work.
PureResponse210@reddit
I did, by ditching all semester long. I didn't make it to be a senior. Drop out for the loss. I did get my GED later on.
asoep44@reddit
Yes pretty much everyone did.
Even the stricter teachers pretty much told us to go instead of coming in.
Ok-Equivalent8260@reddit
I skipped a bunch of days, so probably.
Ok_Researcher_9796@reddit
Nah. I skipped senior year altogether. I was already 18 and working full time. Got my diploma when I was 19.
Particular_Silver_@reddit
Yep, about a dozen of us went to the beach!
TheReallyAngryOne@reddit
Oh heck no. My grandma used to work for the school district and knew everyone, including my teachers. In my freshman year, I was late coming home due to after-school jrotc practice. I forgot to tell grandma. She had called 3 teachers and the librarian. I did not hear the end of it for a week. I was not going through that again.
DejaBlonde@reddit
Ours was school-sponsored so we didn't get into trouble, and it was a field trip to Six Flags. If you didn't have the money for admission, but you still skipped, you still got in trouble for that though.
mostlygray@reddit
I did. We went bowling and ate pizza. It was fun. No booze or drugs. About 10 of us. It was fun. That was in '96. That was the last time I went bowling
The other group went to the river, got hammered, got busted by the sheriff, got in huge trouble. Scotty (the sheriff) knew they were going to be there so the party was doomed. You can't hide from Scotty.
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FoxtrotSierraTango@reddit
No, I told my parents they would get the attendance call. Fox Sr. got super pissy and said I wasn't allowed to skip under any circumstances. So I sat in class for the day with the special ed and ESL students doing absolutely nothing.
59chevyguy@reddit
Yes and no.
I and my best friend ran the school store as part of our business class. We were warned by the teacher that if we skipped we’d be fired and our grade would suffer. Instead of skipping, our parents called us out sick in an effort to have us not be fired. So we sort of skipped, but it was an excused absence.
The kicker, we got fired anyway. When we contested it with the teacher and the principal we were told it was to teach us a lesson and that a real business would have fired us as well.
My friend’s parents were wealthy and sued for unlawful termination. You want to pretend your school store is a real business, well treat it like a real business.
We were actual employees of the school, we got paid, got a W2, paid taxes, had to abide by the employee handbook, etc. The school initially tried to fight it, but our absence was a sick call which was permitted in the employee handbook and neither of us had had any previous performance problems and had often been praised for what we did to develop the store from what had been basically a closet with school supplies to an actual store that the students and staff lined up to buy not only supplies, but school branded clothing, candy, soda, freshly baked cookies, etc. from. In the end the school settled and had to pay us the pay we would have received had we worked the remainder of the school year and had to keep our grade intact.
Inappropriate_Ballet@reddit
I still do.
Delicious-Leg-5441@reddit
Yes and it started freshman year
Larry_but_not_Darryl@reddit
My school didn't have one.
PenguinTheYeti@reddit
I ended up skipping the entirety of my second semester, starting around mid-march.
Longest "2 weeks t̶o̶ ̶f̶l̶a̶t̶t̶e̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶u̶r̶v̶e̶" of my high school career
EnlightenedCorncob@reddit
Every Friday lol
_aelysar@reddit
Nah- my buddies and I still went to school. It was fun- didn’t do shit all day bc 3/4 of the seniors weren’t there. One of the deans went to the beach and took down names and they got detentions.
We skipped the next day, though. At that point, most of our classes were done. AP and college credit classes followed a schedule where our final exams were about a month before school ended.
jimbopalooza@reddit
Oh yeah. Junior and Senior years lol
Only-Friend-8483@reddit
Yes.
According-Couple2744@reddit
Yes. By the time I graduated in 1984, the school was accepting it. There were no tests or papers due on Senior Skip day. It was even implied that it would be better if we came in for the roll call in the AM and left after we were marked present. They didn’t even request early dismissal notes from our parents. Many of us hung out together at the park, everyone from the popular kids to the nerds. It was so much fun.
HeadHeart3067@reddit
Of course! I lived in Florida so most of us seniors spent the day at the beach.
T_Peg@reddit
Yep it was great. Almost my whole grade getting hammered in one dude's backyard and all scattering through the yard of the house behind his when the cops showed up. Me and my group stopped at a deli and regrouped at my house.
kmfix@reddit
No
HealthySchedule2641@reddit
Yes, and there was a large gathering at a nearby lake. To be fair, I participated in a lot of other skip days my senior year, too.
NW_Forester@reddit
I did not. I was doing Running Start at the local community college and our classes didn't end for like 2 more weeks so I didn't feel like I could miss that day.
Gunther482@reddit
Yes and there was a party (with alcohol) that night at a classmates farm. I remember the school was threatening to not let people walk if they could prove they were at that party or skipped without an excuse but I don’t think anything came of it in the end.
pheen@reddit
I had gotten caught skipping earlier that spring and my mom worked at the school, so I was in class unfortunately.
Creative_Energy533@reddit
I completely forget why, but senior ditch day was cancelled for my class. Someone did something, but hell if I can remember now. 😂
trikakeep@reddit
It was called National Bunk Day when I was in high school
bkinstle@reddit
Yes if it snowed on the mountains
hairysquirl@reddit
So everyday? Shit, senior year I just stopped going to 1st period (guitar 1) very early in the semester. And walked out of my senior project class day one, and took all 3 lunch periods instead. I maybe talked to the counselor once, and then never a follow up after.
I have my diploma in anyone was curious lol
_Poopacabra@reddit
I skipped a lot throughout the year leading up to that, so I had one teacher tell me that if I skipped on senior skip day, she would fail me. If I didn’t pass her class, I would not have graduated, so a few of us showed up to her class in the same clothes we wore to the senior kegger the night before.
MMARapFooty@reddit
Yea I stayed home
pete_blake@reddit
We were told we wouldn’t get our diploma if we skipped so…no.
towblerone@reddit
i did at my school. we had a tradition where the night before, we would set the school up with pranks, like covering lockers in aluminum foil or stacking cups on teachers’ desks. then, the day we skip, we all got breakfast, and then those that had their license would load a bunch of other students into their car and we’d drive around the school honking our horns for like 5 minutes straight
JaneandMichaelBanks@reddit
No. I was a dork and I wasn't friends with the any of the cool kids that were cutting so I went to school.
Any-Concentrate-1922@reddit
I had one teacher who said we were behind for the year, so we couldn't do skip day (which we called cut day). She said any senior who was absent that day would get a zero, whatever that meant. So I took different day, lol.
TrueInky@reddit
Yes, but it was organized by the school. In retrospect it would have been more fun to just collectively play hooky, but we were a class of goodie-two-shoes.
Wild_Anteater_2189@reddit
Yep and my mom called my in as “sick” that day
architeuthiswfng@reddit
Heck yeah. Do they still do that?
ZeroQuick@reddit
I did! Honestly, I forgot all about that until I read this.
Willing_Acadia_1037@reddit
Yes! I think ours was the Monday after Prom? We had “age of majority” at 18 so we could all call ourselves in with a case of senioritis. We drove around town, had lunch, got ice cream. We also had a “rock” outside the school and painted the rock.
IrukandjiPirate@reddit
When I was a senior, every day was skip day. (Yes, truant officers do come to your house)
SillyBanana123@reddit
We didn’t have one. But the school year ended about a month early for seniors so that more than makes up for it
Electrical_Resist_31@reddit
Were you a 2020 grad? My senior year got cut short so we didn’t get a senior prom/skip day/ regular graduation
SillyBanana123@reddit
No, 2019. We had prom and a normal graduation and all that. My high school always let seniors out in the middle of may instead of mid/late June for everyone else
Electrical_Resist_31@reddit
Ahhhhh
funsk8mom@reddit
We never had it when I was in school.
My kids just did though and because some idiot parent sent an email to excuse her precious little child’s absence, they all got in trouble and have to make up the day.
mostie2016@reddit
I mean Covid happened and school closed right after our district’s spring break. So no senior ditch day more like a 2 year skip.
Top-Comfortable-4789@reddit
My parents didn’t believe me when I said I wouldn’t get in trouble for skipping. I went to school and me and one other person were there.
Bleh3325@reddit
I skipped. I can’t remember what I did instead of going to school, though. (This was nearly 30 years ago….) I think my friends and I might have gone shopping together, nothing crazy.
Forward-Repeat-2507@reddit
No but I left when I was a sophomore so kinda missed out but also skipped the bullying so 50/50
cnsosiehrbridnrnrifk@reddit
05/05/05 !!!
jaya9581@reddit
We had an asshole principal who threatened to not let anyone graduate who skipped. So almost everyone went to school that day.
He was also the dude who decided to ban plastic water bottles (metal wasn’t really a common thing back then) in a place where school went through mid/late June and there was no air conditioning. After a couple kids fainted he reversed that rule pretty fast.
ProgressNo8844@reddit
I also invented jr. skip day, sophomore skip day. Hump skip day! You get the picture!
DGlen@reddit
Yup
poperay32@reddit
I didn’t, my class also took a school supported (student funded) senior trip to Washington DC and Disney world. Didn’t go to that either, because fuck those bitches. Those were some of my favorite days my senior year though lol.
cleanuprequired1970@reddit
Yes... but I didn't limit it to just one day. 2nd semester of senior year, I probably skipped as many days as I was there considering I already had all the credits I needed to graduate by then.
Commmercial_Crab4433@reddit
I went to a very small school. 24 people in the senior class. Every single one of us chickened out after making elaborate plans for the day.
Aggravating_Finish_6@reddit
Yes but it was very accepted. I think my mom called me out so it wasn’t really a skip more of just a day off.
WinterWizard9497@reddit
Honestly, I was so unpopular I didn't even know what senior ditch day was...that was the lonely day in high school
Zealousideal_Cod5214@reddit
Yes. A group of my friends and I met up at the school because it was the easiest place for us to meet, but then we just went elsewhere.
Richard_Thickens@reddit
I had perfect attendance all four years in high school, and I really didn't want to ruin that. In hindsight, that got me nothing but a silly sheet of paper at the end of the semester, but it was important enough to me at the time that I showed up anyway.
Plus, I had a course or two that included more than just seniors, and I hated doing makeup work. 🙃
Haifisch2112@reddit
Yes, and I was able to do it without getting busted.
My gf at the time was a year older than me and graduated the previous year. I left my house, started walking to school like any other day, and she picked me up when I was about halfway there.
We went to her house since her parents were both working, and she called the school pretending to be my mom, telling them I wouldn't be in because I was sick. They said to her, "Are you aware that today is senior skip day?" She said, "If it is, he's not going anywhere because he was throwing up all night and is in bed right now." They thanked her for calling, and we spent the day at her house.
Meanwhile, all the local hang out spots were scoped out, and a lot of seniors got busted and sent to school, followed by calls to their parents.
emoryhotchkiss1@reddit
I didn’t have anyone tell me it was happening or I would’ve
yozaner1324@reddit
We didn't really have that. What we did have as an everybody-but-seniors skip day. There was this big 4 hour long assembly every year, where they read out all the graduating seniors and their accomplishments and while everyone is required to attend, basically all the sophomores and juniors just dipped. The seniors had to go because if you didn't they said we couldn't walk at graduation. The freshman went because they didn't know better from previous years.
Learningstuff247@reddit
I skipped a lot more than a day senior year
Tommy_Wisseau_burner@reddit
Nope. I had the state championship meet for track and it required you to be at school. I was the only senior that day lmao
Ok-Narwhal-8499@reddit
How did you do?
Tommy_Wisseau_burner@reddit
Terrible. Funny enough I fouled on my very last jump, and it was the best jump I ever had. Like a 49’ triple jump, which is really good for high school
cookorsew@reddit
Yes, and my mom wrote me a note to excuse my absence because she said I deserved one day off after working so hard for four years of high school. Then I wondered how many days off she would’ve excused me for throughout high school! This was before mental health days were a thing, and also when expectations were super high and we did a crap ton of homework every day, so much so I sacrificed sleep often.
tarebola@reddit
Yes I did. LMAO - the school called my mom and told her I was absent. She replied, ‘I know, it’s senior skip day.’ She told me the lady replied in a snippy voice, ‘That is not a school sanctioned activity!’ My mom said okay, I know where she is so we’re good. I love my mom! 😍🥰
Rokmonkey_@reddit
Nope.
My physics teacher said that if we didn't skip, he would let us skip the final exam.
Responsible_Side8131@reddit
Either we didn’t have a senior skip day, or I was too far out of the look to have even known about it.
Both are completely possible.
Impossible_Fruit_973@reddit
My class had 14 people in it. It was a private school in central Alabama. Senior Skip Day was something the school hosted. They took a van down to the beach, listing to gospel music all the way down. I saw those 13 fucks practically daily, I didn't want to spend more time with them. So I actually skipped and went to the local air field to get flight hours towards my liscens. The following day, my school expressed how disappointed they were in me. And made me write an apology to the teachers who drove my class down. Basically, I told them to get bent, but in a way that honors Jesus because I was being proactive on my skip day. Then I got marked for attendance because of it. My folks didn't care. Senior year was odd. The school started getting really involved in students' personal lives and would ostracized families that did not attend church it was affiliated with.
My school also did a trip from AL to NYC that year. I remember our headmaster kept hyping up how he got us reservations at an "authentic NYC pizza joint." Soborro....they took us to a soborro on 34th St. He felt so proud of himself. The kids were all like, "So cool, he knows the owner of a big city pizza place," and blah blah. I just rolled my eyes and showed my class the same pizza joint in the Atlanta Airport when we headed back. They were so confused.
Im probably going to homeschool until HS. Build a good foundation in my kids myself, and TRAVLE often. Then let them figure things out in HS personally/with guidance due to my time at a private school.
de99102@reddit
On graduation day, I was 8 months in the military .
AdamOnFirst@reddit
Yes… but one of my four teachers at the time said he hated it and would mark anybody absent as truant and make sure we got detention (he was a beloved and wonderful teacher I value to this day, other than this one hardass principled stand) so I also had my mom call me in excused, lol
DegenerateCrocodile@reddit
Yes. I got permission from my parents though, and they even called in to tell the school I was sick so I wouldn’t get in trouble for it.
Apparently, quite a few kids also skipped, as the vice principal visited several classes the following week to claim that “Senior Ditch Day” is not a real thing.
lavasca@reddit
Yep. It isn’t like they couldn’t really find us. My mom investigated to make sure it was a real thing.
The_Arch_Heretic@reddit
Every day I could get away with it was a skip day.
TheBimpo@reddit
Yup. We had a big picnic at a local park. We also skipped another day and went to an amusement park. We skipped a lot, a whole lot, of school.
photogypsy@reddit
There was a group of us that would forge check out notes (it was the 90s) or go to the pay phone outside the gym and call to check each other out. In our defense our last two classes were PE, and study hall.
Mysterious_Mango_3@reddit
No, because I had something that required my attendance (probably a sporting event or choir thing), so my friends and I picked a different day for our own senior skip day.
flootytootybri@reddit
We were told we couldn’t walk at graduation if we planned a senior skip day. So, my friends and I planned a random day in April to skip and we did :)
jamiesugah@reddit
No. My older sister did, and my mom wrote her an excuse, but my dad was out of work my senior year of high school so I didn't have access to a car and my dad refused.
Horzzo@reddit
Yes. I had drank 10 beers by noon then a bunch of caffeine pills to stay awake. We were dumb kids but at least we weren't doing drugs or driving around.
Active_Two_6741@reddit
No , had perfect attendance five of last seven years of school missed 2 1\2 days the other two years
Cacophonous_Silence@reddit
I did. Twice lol
In October my senior year people said 1 day was Senior Skip Day. Many people said it wasn't the "official" one. I replied "there isn't an official one. It's inherently an unofficial thing." As far as I was concerned, it was an excuse to take off.
Being so early in the year, I wasnt 18 quite yet and forged my mom's signature on a note and got caught. I was pulled into an admin's office and asked why I skipped. "Uhhhhh... senior skip day?"
"Alright lunch detention today"
So I missed 4½ hours of school (I had reduced classtime and left at lunch bc of having enough credits) and just had to stay an extra 40 minutes that day in exchange. Still say it was worth it.
Much later in the year there finally came the quote unquote official one and I was 18 so I just signed myself out that day.
I was a bad student and looked for any reason to ditch.
ThinkButterscotch635@reddit
You mean Ditch Day? Yes. We went to the beach for the weekend. Stayed in rentals with adult supervision. Had fun ! 1959.
Wild-Strategy-4101@reddit
No, as it was cancelled. While I was working my part-time job to pay for my university fees in the fall, my friends had a blast participating in an impromptu mischief night. We went to an all girls school in Cincinnati, Our Lady of Angels(since torn down). They all got drunk at a drive in theatre and then left to T-p the nuns' convent and the huge pine trees on the school/convent property. The vice-principal, Sr. Mary whatever, came out in her white sleeping gown while holding a candle to chase off my friends. They all said it was surreal and hysterical. My friends (about a 20 girls) threw empty beer and Boones Farm bottles all over the property. The next day first period, the janitors were outside pulling T-paper off the trees and collecting empty booze bottles, we were called into the gym and told if the class pulled one more stunt our graduation would be cancelled. So everyone agreed to not pull anymore stunts even though we planned Senior Skip Day that next week. Our class pulled some really crazy stunts and the Principal and V-Principal told us that we were the worst graduation they'd ever experienced. We all just broke out laughing which pissed off the nuns. Even though I wasn't part of that T-P debacle, I'm proud of my friends and our class was renown amongst future classes. We all stuck together and there was no ratting out of class members. BTW the next year my sister's goody two shoes class was told they were the best class ever and, no, they didn't do aischorf Night or Senior Skip Day. My sister, her class's Vice-president of student council, years later said she wished she was part of my class as her's was boring.
HairyDadBear@reddit
Yes but my school made it semi-official. Didn't tell us to go home but was very accommodating
LQQK_A_Squirrel@reddit
Our senior skip day was officially the day of prom. Seniors got off school but underclassmen has to show up for a half day if they were attending prom. (Jr/Sr prom). Didn’t feel like a skip day when the school gave your blessing to not show up.
Lunar_M1nds@reddit
Yes, I went to the beach with my best friend
Beanie82@reddit
Yes. I was a straight A student so my parents were fine with it and excused the absence for me. My friends and I rented a bouncy house for the day and had a blast acting like kids. We didn’t drink back then or get invited to any of the popular kid parties but we had a lot of fun.
Roboticpoultry@reddit
We didn’t have one. Admin hated our class and told us that anyone who participated in a skip day wouldn’t walk at graduation. I called their bluff, they let me walk
shikashika97@reddit
We had senior skip WEEK to "prepare for graduation." We would go to school for about an hour in the mornings to rehearse graduation then leave.
iAmAmbr@reddit
We had "senior fun day" where they kept us all in the activity center (the large gym) and we had different activities, sports, crafts, etc that we could do instead of normal classes. We were required to be there and stay there for it though and had to be in good standing or we couldn't participate
SenseNo635@reddit
Hell yes!
RedLegGI@reddit
Yep
Fun-Yellow-6576@reddit
Yes, went to a few.
Pristine-Confection3@reddit
Not at all. I didn’t want to get in trouble and found it unfair that others did it.
yellowirenut@reddit
Yep, I went to Cedar Point. Junior and senior year. I was held back in 3rd grade. Made new friends and kept my old.
zaxxon4ever@reddit
No, I did not. My girlfriend was a junior and my bus rude to school was over an hour long. It was worth it to me to go to school to see her
lynnzee@reddit
Sort of, I had my driver's test that day, but I didn't go to the amusement park with the rest of them if that's what you're asking
-make-it-so-@reddit
We didn’t have one, but we also didn’t have to go to class the last quarter of the year and did volunteer work instead.
Equal_Commission881@reddit
We didn't have senior skip day.
Anal-Y-Sis@reddit
Every day.
birdnerd5280@reddit
Yes. Most of my class went to some classmate's family's land to day drink. My best friend and I took the train to Chicago instead. Museums, downtown parks, and Boystown, though we couldn't get into anything in Boystown at that age. Good times!
Zealousideal_Law8297@reddit
I had a friend spend the night so we could hang out all day. She kind of freaked out last minute the morning of so we ended up going in, turned out most the seniors went to school that day.
ucjj2011@reddit
Yep. Me and 100+ classmates went to a park that was just across the county line in case they came looking for us. Unfortunately my girlfriend at the time was struggling with one of her classes and decided she couldn't skip.
Our school had a policy that if you were absent, you had to get a note signed in a particular office before school so that you didn't have to show it to every one of your teachers. There was a line out the door and all the way around the hallway of Seniors getting their notes approved. The school had a policy that if you were over 18 you could sign your own note. One girl wrote her note to say " I was not here on Friday because I didn't feel like coming in", and the person in the office said "This looks like personal illness to me". I didn't bother to get a note from my parents, but nobody ever asked me about it.
el_butt@reddit
Yes but like a few others, the school kinda just planned around it. Still went to the movies with friends so that was nice.
theShpydar@reddit
My senior skip day was on a Friday, and my birthday happened to be that Thursday,so I ended up taking 2 days for Skip Day. 😁
thepineapplemen@reddit
I don’t think I did. Granted it was during the pandemic when a lot of people hadn’t gone back to in person, so none of my high school senior friends were back in person. Probably didn’t even realize it was senior skip day
ButterFace225@reddit
Graduation was always scheduled 2 weeks before exams. So, we had diplomas by then. We were free to stay home or travel.
hjmcgrath@reddit
This was back in the 60's. Went to private high school in south Texas. We had a Senior Weekend. It was unspoken but understood that on that weekend none of the faculty or staff would go to Mexico for the weekend. We made the most of it. Amazing that on the way back the boarder people just let a carload of drunk kids back in without saying a word. One kid was so out of it we had to prop him up. I'm sure they knew who we were. I'm guessing the response would be a lot different nowadays.
LordChefChristoph@reddit
Yes, and Junior Skip Day, and Sophomore Skip Day, and Wednesday Skip Day. I did skip Freshman Skip Day, but made up for it with For the F of It Skip Day and Test Unprepared for Skip Day.
Dan_Berg@reddit
Yes, but it was the day after our senior trip so it was expected no seniors would show up
herehear12@reddit
My school had a few “senior late arrival days” where we get a few days where we could arrive late due to state testing. I did it once the others I arrived at normal time and slept in one of my classes until it was time for me to actually be there
Equivalent_Ad_8413@reddit
There was no such thing at my school
abmbulldogs@reddit
We did not have a senior skip day officially or unofficially so I did not participate.
jackfaire@reddit
I honestly don't remember my school doing one.
D-ouble-D-utch@reddit
I got suspended for organizing it. Lmao
JuanG_13@reddit
I didn't make it to my senior year (I got expelled/dropped out) but I would ditch on most days regardless of what day it was. 🤷🏻♂️😂
FrenchFreedom888@reddit
I did not. I was behind (eternally in some classes) and wanted to use all the time I could have to complete assignments
1981drv2@reddit
Didn’t have it.
hungaryboii@reddit
I skipped on senior skip day, but my school was broken down into "even" and "odd" days based on the calendar day. My odd days senior year I had two bullshit classes to start the day so sometimes I would drop my little brother off at school on time and I would go hangout with friends and get breakfast somewhere then id come in to my last 2 classes since they were actually important
zealot_ratio@reddit
Yes. Ours was not officially sanctioned. They actually sent staff after us. It was a whole big deal. We drove an hour away to a small beach. Nothing illicit, just a beach day. The administrator showed up with a video camera (old 80s camcorder..hah) and made a big deal of it. So silly.
supertwicken@reddit
Yes. But also on many other days lol. In my junior year, I went to more Saturday school than M-F school, it seemed like.
This year I work at a school, and 75% of the seniors who "ditched" got their parents to excuse them. Which, to me, doesn't actually count as ditching. But hey, at least they're great kids!
voteblue18@reddit
No. I was a nerd.
jkostelni1@reddit
We didn’t have one that I was cool enough to know about but I skipped the last day and forgot to turn in my English final that I had already done 🙃
telepathicavocado3@reddit
I did, but it was Senior Skip 2 Weeks, Actually Skip The Entire Rest Of The Semester It's 2020
Queen_Aurelia@reddit
My mom refused to call me out. I had perfect attendance all for years of high school. She forced me to go no matter how sick I was or what else was going on. I even had to miss a funeral.
My younger sister got to miss a week of school to go to Disney with her friend’s family. She also got to miss a week of school when another family member died.
fisher_man_matt@reddit
Yes, a lot of the class had a pool party. My friends and I spent the day on the lake fishing. That was a day none of the seniors went in. There was another day that we had a field day in the morning. The football field where everything was happening was beside the parking lot. At a set time we all made a run for our vehicles and left. 90% of us made it before the vice-principal blocked cars leaving.
The early 90s were a fun time!
V-DaySniper@reddit
Nope, and the teachers gave us all pop quizzes that a toddler could pass. Questions like who was the 1st president?, what is 2+2?, what is your favorite color? It was about 10 questions of nonsense worth real grade points. We also got snacks, played games, and had good old screw around time. The people who came the next day got full-length tests and essays.
tcrhs@reddit
Yes. The entire class hung out at the lake and had a big party.
phishmademedoit@reddit
Constantly.
Ok_Helicopter2305@reddit
I did and slept. It's not very interesting
EcstasyCalculus@reddit
I don't remember if my high school had a designated Senior Skip Day, but after I had been accepted to colleges and taken my AP tests, I skipped every class on my own that I knew wouldn't materially impact my grade.
stewiesaidblast@reddit
No, I think a few people organized an unofficial one, but not many people were gone.
Substantial-Ad-8575@reddit
My high school had a Sr Prep Day. Also, anyone missing 15 days, be that full or partial, was on academic probation and those excuses were reviewed by their teachers, admin and parents. Every class, attendance was counted. Just what they did.
So not many skipped to many days, easiest way to skip was end of school pep rallies during football season. That’s it and Sr Prep day.
My 4 children (29-23), don’t miss much school. One had perfect attendance. But was challenging for them as they started AP classes in 9th grade at a different building and then local community college classes in 10th grade. They were tardy sometimes due to traffic or long time to get-ear off campus lunch.
Got calls all time from school admin about their tardiness, I just reply, he/she is in top 20 of the schools GPA, out of 1000 students per class. They might be a little late due to traffic outside of their control, while taking advanced classes.
And my children-did get into trouble. By questioning teachers-class plan-incorrect information in books-wanting more challenging school work. Yeah, teachers-admin glad last one finally graduated, heard they threw a party to celebrate…
TheGreatCleave@reddit
Yup.
Skipped a lot of other days too, pretty much any day where each teacher confirmed there will be nothing important I'd just walk out of school and go back home after 2nd or 3rd period.
brian11e3@reddit
We didn't have senior skip day in my school because we already had deer season skip days. Once deer season started, a lot of kids from the rural area either came in late or didn't come in at all.
Of course, that was pre-Colombine when kids were allowed to keep hunting rifles, bows, and shotguns in their car while parked in the school parking lot.
No_Foundation7308@reddit
I skipped my whole senior year, so I guess I win?
pherring@reddit
I did. My girlfriend went home early too even though she wasn’t a senior. It was fun.
Dirk_McGirken@reddit
I literally couldn't. My parents told me I wasn't allowed to and my stepdad knows approximately half the people in my town, including all the teachers I had. He literally texted my history teacher to make sure I was in class that day.
Horizontal_Bob@reddit
It wasn’t a thing at my school
DonkeyGlad653@reddit
Yes. I was surprised at the number of Honors students who were there.
GirlyDressyGal678@reddit
no because i wasn't socially connected to seniors. but i was arrested for truancy multiple other days.
spacefaceclosetomine@reddit
We didn’t have that, but yes I skipped school. Back then you could call yourself in or be counted present if a friend took attendance. I never skipped anything important, I was a good student.
Krillin@reddit
For mine, we chartered a bus to Six Flags. How a bunch of 17 year olds pulled that off still confounds my mind. I wasn't part of the organizing and didn't ask questions, just had a good time.
PremeTeamTX@reddit
If I remember correctly, for "Senior" day, we had to go to our first class where we were dismissed from, and you either went to what was basically a field day or you could buy a pass just to dip out for the day. What the majority really did was go to the field day for an hour or so and then dip by 11 cause it wasn't specified how long we had to attend the event.
mountain_attorney558@reddit
Nope
PaleDreamer_1969@reddit
Yes and it was unannounced. We all just decided to not show up that day. About 75% went to a lake park. Police did show up to kick us out, after we been there for 4 hours, but we were having so much fun drinking and playing games.
SlickDumplings@reddit
I think I was one of the folks who planned it as well.
wonderbeen@reddit
Yep, we all went on a canoe trip (c/o ‘92)
emoberg62@reddit
Yes. I graduated in 1980. I was already accepted into college and just waiting around for graduation. I was a nerdy nice kid who had never skipped school before. The weather was nice so my friends, eight of us, and I went on a day trip in someone’s station wagon. We went swimming, etc. There were no repercussions and I didn’t tell my parents. I think they probably knew, but it was a commonly accepted tradition. I think some people went to school that day but we didn’t miss anything important. It was just a nice opportunity for some free time.
softgypsy@reddit
Yes I did. About half of our class skipped (i went to a small school so that was only like 10-11 people) and we all got in trouble the next day lol
jess3jim@reddit
I think I just went to the lake . My kid just did theirs and her and her boyfriend went out of town ( a ton of people went as well in their own cars) and they walked through the towns “old town” , went to the train museum, then he took her shopping and he gave her a promise ring .
Senior ditch day is something majority of seniors here participate except the ones who are perfect attendance, parents super over protective, or they are an athlete that have a game that day and they want to play
The kids who didn’t go places just stood home. I think in my daughter’s senior classes only 2 kids show up so the teacher just let them play on their phones the whole time and lay around if they wanted
Foxy_locksy1704@reddit
Our school you could only participate in senior ditch day if you were on honor roll.
Greenbook2024@reddit
At my school it was part of the official calendar, along with Senior Prank Day (the prank had to be approved by the administration, too). Skip day was the day before one of the rounds of college applications was due, so hardly anyone did anything fun.
ddp67@reddit
No thanks, it seems that the people who are pros at this or not the kind of people I wanted to hang around anyway.
TemporarilyAnguished@reddit
Yes, but my whole class came in for calculus and calculus only
ohheykiki@reddit
Yes. We had two.
First was the Friday before Memorial Day-prom was the Saturday, so many girls would go get manicures and pedicures. A lot of people (myself included) went to Folklife. It was my first time navigating the city busses.
Second was June 6th (6/6/06). Funny thing was I ended up at school anyway because I was doing the concert tech for the middle school choir concert/musical, so I slept in and then hung out in the light/sound booth with a burrito.
rainbow_olive@reddit
Nope. My mom refused to let me participate and it was so embarrassing having to sit in the auditorium (I think maybe one other senior was there) to pass the time because the seniors were gone and the teachers didn't hold class. It was pointless for me to even be there, I didn't learn a dang thing.
To this day I disagree with my mom's decision. It's was just ONE day! And I was a good student who never got into trouble at school and rarely at home.
Guachole@reddit
Why would you ask for permission to break rules???
Thats half the fun of breaking rules because youre "NOT ALLOWED", but nobody can stop you
rainbow_olive@reddit
I get what you're saying but I had so many reasons!
My mom was the one who dropped me off at the busstop every morning, and I sat in the car until the bus came. Busstop was a 15 minute drive from my house so no way I could just sneakily walk home. I didn't have my full drivers license just yet + no car. Plus so many classmates had said their parents were all for senior skip day, so I showed my parents the flier thinking they'd also see it as a fun idea. Nope. Wrong. 🤦🏻♀️
My mom was a good mother in several ways, but man, she was SCARY when she was mad. Not abusive, but like a bull ready to charge. 😜 Besides, my school contacted parents when there was an unexcused absense, or she probably would have called the school to make sure I showed up. I wouldn't have gotten away with it. Mom would have found a way to punish me that would have been way worse than just having to go to school that day. 🤷🏻♀️
InevitableRhubarb232@reddit
No I don’t think so
My kid didn’t either. He was like “there were only 3 kids in my class today” 😑. The bummer is the teacher didn’t give them an easy assignment for some points for showing up
Apocalyptic0n3@reddit
I did not. The day was the week before AP exams and a few of the AP teachers held a bunch of optional study sessions on that day. My AP classes all had the same group of students and it basically turned into a 3-4 hour group study that was quite helpful.
Suppafly@reddit
I didn't. Ours wasn't a big deal. From my experience with my kids, it's still not a big deal.
No-Profession422@reddit
Yes. I was 18 as a Senior, I could call out from school anyway. I called out almost too much😄
spollard22@reddit
Everyday!
VegetableRound2819@reddit
No. I participated in many a VegetableRound skip day though.
hamburgergerald@reddit
No. I didn’t want to get in trouble. I should have though, if I recall correctly that day every class was just watching a movie from the TV the teachers rolled in on a cart
imperial1968@reddit
Yes
Beautiful_Tap5942@reddit
"Back in my day"
We had senior walkout day leading to senior skip day. I did it and included my younger sister since I was her ride home (she was a freshman) it was great because we had a cop who let us in and out of the school parking lot. Who was only "supposed" to let seniors out on senior walk out day. So to by pass this, I told my sister she had to get in the trunk of my 92 MX5. Did I really need to do that? not at all. Was it funny as hell to bully my sister into fitting into the trunk of a car that no human should be able to fit in, absolutely.
wholesomeinsanity@reddit
I participated in all the skip days. There was one class I had (Drama in the old building) with windows in the back that we’d hop out of. We’d come back at the end and walk thru the side door. No idea if he knew or if we were just that sly but we never got busted.
Effective-One6527@reddit
My school had two official days one where we prepped for graduation and took our class picture.
Another where we visited the catholic center of the college most students were going to be attending and then went to a pickle ball place.
I went to a catholic school and had a grad class of 30 so 17 of my classmates were going to this college and the rest were split all over.
Jemmacow@reddit
Yes, to do a school project 🤦♀️. I was such a dork. Lol
Ok_Firefighter334@reddit
I met all requirements for graduation in 3 years so my senior year I had like 2 classes on my schedule & basically stopped going to school the last couple of months
FancyPickle37@reddit
I skipped most of my senior year tbh.
Ok_Bar4002@reddit
Our school had a field trip to a theme park. It worked for a couple years then people started skipping the Friday the week before as well.
sneezhousing@reddit
Yes and no. My .om was a teacher at my school. She wouldn't let me stay home. However I didn't go to class that day. I hung out with friends left campus even though we weren't supposed to
174Angel@reddit
Yes. We called it Senior Ditch Day. I was such a nerd that I went around and told all my teachers I would be ditching the day. Lol.
Most_Window_1222@reddit
Several times
parker9832@reddit
Yes I did. I think I participated my junior year also.
croccqueen@reddit
my school actually completely banned senior skip day. we would get instantly suspended and barred from graduating if we participated. our senior “pranks” also had to be approved by faculty. such buzzkills
nukey18mon@reddit
Yeah, in fact we had two senior skip days in NY. Neither were official. The first one was everyone taking the trains to NJ beaches to get drunk underage, multiple high schools participated in that one so the beaches were packed. The second skip day we all went to six flags.
Majestic-Macaron6019@reddit
Sadly, I had an AP exam that day, so no skipping for me. Got a 5 on the exam, though!
Oswaldofuss6@reddit
Absolutely .
Confident-Crawdad@reddit
Most of second semester was skip day for me
Build-A-Pilot@reddit
I did, it was on a Friday. Apparently I didn't get the word that there was another unofficial senior skip day on the Monday
JNorJT@reddit
Everyday was senior skip day for me 😎
notyogrannysgrandkid@reddit
I was at a track meet because Skip Day was on a Friday in May. Soooo kind of?
TheDoorViking@reddit
I cheated and did it as a junior. Got caught by some seniors from my school. Administration never found out, so good on those seniors for not snitching.
danceswithsockson@reddit
I dropped out before mine, but I skipped on everyone else’s if that counts.
PostTurtle84@reddit
My teen experience was different than most people's. I went to one of those troubled teen trauma factories at 14. Came home at 16, got my GED, got a job, and started college.
To be fair, skipping was part of the reason I was sent to the trauma factory. I went to class on Monday to see what would be covered that week, and if I didn't already know it, I'd show up to that class week.
But if I did know it, I didn't see any point in showing up again until Friday for the test. If I got anything less than a 95% on that test, I went to that class all the next week and also went to the tutoring program after school for that week.
Unfortunately, attendance and participation made up a not insignificant part of grades.
And the schooling at the trauma factory was a joke. We got standard American text books and taught ourselves. I completed the 9th grade course work 3 times. My "teacher" lost my records 3 times. It wasn't accredited anyway.
So I got my GED since I was effectively 2 years behind.
rinky79@reddit
My school scheduled mandatory quizzes, so no.
quietfangirl@reddit
Nope, my senior year was in the height of the pandemic.
Formal-Telephone5146@reddit
Yes
Kessalia19@reddit
No? I don't think we had it, but that was over 25 years ago, so I don't remember. I -did- ditch a class I already had an A+ in a few times to hang out with friends. I think they had a free period?
Unhappy_Key9009@reddit
i was online and it got cancelled because we all had shit grades and needed to be there to understand what was going on for our AP tests
LSBm5@reddit
Absolutely
meanbean995@reddit
No, the staff visited every classroom with seniors and also made announcements over the intercom. We were to be present that day. Anyone not present without a valid excuse from a parent or doctors note would not be able to attend graduation and I think there was prom as well? Wouldn’t be able to attend that either. Or any other activity like pep rally and whatnot. They very much wanted everyone there that day or else. Hardly anyone did unless their parents were down with it and made up an excuse for them. It was a normal day, have tests and quizzes and whatever. lol very dumb.
Bizarro_Zod@reddit
They told us we wouldn’t be allowed to walk at graduation if we participated in senior prank day, which was the same as skip day for us. Was lame as hell, but someone ruined it for everyone a few years before so it’s whatever.
Sergeant_Metalhead@reddit
Yes but for me and my friends every day was a potential skip day lol
djdjdkdjdjfnx@reddit
2-3 times a week, actually.
SlyHutchinson@reddit
It was the only day of High School I missed and I got detention for it.
Cam3739@reddit
Wasn't really a thing at my school. Seniors had to do internships for the last 2 weeks before finals, but some had such joke internships it didn't make a difference. I had to be at a veterinary hospital everyday. Those 2 weeks really turned me off of wanting to become a vet, too.
lalamichaels@reddit
Yes
beenoc@reddit
Involuntarily - I didn't want to because it would have been pretty quiet and chill and I was (still am) a big fuckin' nerd and would have mostly been able to hang out with my big fuckin' nerd friends and cool big fuckin' nerd teachers, but I had some kind of appointment - dentist appointment maybe? - that got last-minute rescheduled to that day.
tretaaysel@reddit
No, I was too much of a nerd plus they threatened to not let any of the seniors that skipped walk at graduation.
kurtisbmusic@reddit
I don’t think we had one. If we did, I did not participate. The last week of school was so easy any way it was almost like a skip week lol.
justlkin@reddit
I changed schools between 9th and 10th grade from a class of about 40 people to one with hundreds. My old school never did it and I never even heard of it before. But that small town was really conservative and uptight. We weren't even allowed to wear shorts except for a couple days they "generously" allowed it at the end of the year.
brzantium@reddit
Same. I don't think we had one. If your grades, disciplinary record, and attendance were good enough, you could opt out of all your final exams senior year.
notadamnprincess@reddit
I don’t think we did either. But the last 6 weeks of senior year there were so many field trips, AP Exams (which if you took excused you from the final and all classes the day you took it), and I had knee surgery so I attended class literally 3 days in that 6 weeks. My Spanish teacher hated me and tried to get me suspended from graduation for “skipping class” but admin shut him down fast.
Legitimate-Pizza-574@reddit
no. the school threatened to lower all of our semester grades if we were absent. But a day before graduation we had a morning practice and then most went to the beach afterwards.
Dear-Presentation-69@reddit
Yes absolutely- we all went to the beach
Practical-Shape7453@reddit
We did it and always planned a prank on the school and then went to six flags for the day
errorsniper@reddit
I never skipped a class.
It wasnt like some supreme force of will thing.
It just didnt cross my mind as something you could do. Like I never even thought about it. I was in college when I skipped my first class. I was really having fun playing magic (the tcg) and went to pack up cuz I had to go to class. I really didnt want to. My buddy said "So like, just dont go then?" Was eye opening.
I flunked out shortly after lol.
justlkin@reddit
Sure did. But we were sort of "outsiders", so we didn't go to the lake like most of the others. We headed to the big city and did big city things, shopping, eating at a Japanese restaurant, etc. It's definitely worth it, unless people go to one of those overly uptight schools that threaten to take away going to your graduation ceremony. Ours didn't necessarily sanction it, but they weren't going to raise a stink over hundreds of kid's parents call them out for the day. Kind of a bad look when only 10% of the class shows up to the ceremony. Parents don't tolerate that!
bangbangracer@reddit
Yup. It was the day before the senior prank and the day after the senior party.
Shirleysspirits@reddit
No, I ditched the day before. Everyone who did sr ditch day got detention
tank-you--very-much@reddit
I had a quiz that day (my physics teacher did not fuck around) so I think I came in for like a half day just to take that quiz
WetBandit02@reddit
Every day was senior skip day, buddy.
kamakazi339@reddit
No we didn't even have one. Our administration made it very clear if we did a skip day or senior prank we would be denied our graduation
Liminal_Creations@reddit
My old high school had a specific day for it and teachers would essentially kick you out of class if you showed up on that day- I unfortunately moved before my senior year and my new high school didn't have one. Nobody had organized a senior skip day or whatever
Elle3247@reddit
I my high school, there was a contest every year where the winners would get a park day. Of course, it was a “secret” that the seniors always won. It was the county’s way of giving the seniors a day off without losing funding. My junior year, apparently a sophomore got mad that the seniors won AGAIN, so they wrote an article exposing the rigged system. So my senior year, they felt obligated to give it to the Juniors. Then it went back to only seniors again from then on. So the year under me got two years in a row and my year got nothing (interesting how that was the complaining student’s year).
We all skipped that day, and our teachers/administration expected and prepared for it. I believe we got Little Cesars pizzas and went to another park.
The year before me also FULLY participated in senior prank day (our school had about equal parts country and urban—use your imagination), so my senior year we were not allowed bags the last two weeks and we were thoroughly searched for any potentially offending items. Seniors before us also had the opportunity to skip finals if they had perfect attendance, the Juniors complained enough that they opened it up to the whole school—on our last finals. My year was happily trudging along while all the other years actively worked to take every Senior perk from us. lol!
hot4you11@reddit
I was told that if I missed another day, then I wouldn’t graduate. So I did not.
Alarmed-Extension289@reddit
Yep yep, went to the beach and hung out with like 30 other Seniors. It was a good day.
Kaz_117_Petrel@reddit
I did. We also had senior prank day, but I didn’t participate in that. It ended up going very badly for the kids my senior year. A bunch of the cheerleaders thought it would be funny to duck out of class and put baby oil down the hallways so everyone would slip. Ended up one of them slipped and fell down the stairs, breaking her arm. Not fun going to prom in a cast. The year before mine, the kids moved about a dozen port-a-potties from around the area in block the front entrance to school. There was a big sign that said something like “what a shithouse”. At least it wasn’t dangerous, though it was theft. One year released crickets in the hallway. They got everywhere and the school had to get an exterminator.
MeTieDoughtyWalker@reddit
We didn’t do that officially, but every now and then a group of us would skip. You had 8 unexcused absences and we didn’t let them go to waste.
RandomGuyDroppingIn@reddit
No.
And I'm glad I didn't. A handful went on a Senior Skip Day "caravan" and somehow managed to crash three cars into one another. Principal got wind of it and a few dozen people were suspended.
weedtrek@reddit
Yep, we went to a movie, then went bowling. I bought a cigar and smoked it at the bowling alley.
OrdinarySubstance491@reddit
I honestly can't remember. I know that I wouldn't have missed choir which were my first two periods. I also had early release for work study so I would have been gone by 11 am anyway.
kstaxx@reddit
I went to a small boarding school so senior skip day was weird. We did it after all the senior exams were over and it was a pool party at a day student’s house. I did not participate, I stayed on campus and slept.
Unoriginal_UserName9@reddit
No, I had already been caught by the NYPD Truancy unit that year and did not want to repeat the experience.
StrengthFew9197@reddit
More than once.
MEXICOCHIVAS14@reddit
Yes. We had a road trip, it was fun
Saltpork545@reddit
We weren't allowed to have one. Reason being is that a previous senior skip day some kids got caught by the cops while they were supposed to be at school with a felonious amount of drugs. Like brick of coke felonious.
This wasn't like some big inner city thing either. It was in a town of like 25-30k people. It became the news of that town for about a month.
So the city put pressure on the school and they 86'ed senior skip day.
reigndyr@reddit
My high school didn't have anything like this, but my middle school had a version of it, hah. As an 8th grader I remember walking the halls with friends on the last day of school not worrying about being in any classroom, but nothing was being taught anyway.
Responsible-Fun4303@reddit
No I was and still am a goodie two shoes. No way would I have skipped lol
dgmilo8085@reddit
I helped plan it, as well as the senior prank.
HairyHorseKnuckles@reddit
I skipped senior year. I hated my school so went and got my GED instead
biddily@reddit
Yeah. Im not even entirely sure what I did that day.
I vaguely remember doing things I needed to get done with my mother. College prep or errands or scholarship stuff or something.
It was like ditching school to do things I NEEDED to do at offices that were only open Mon-Fri 9-5. Was it really a skip day?
PhilosophyBitter7875@reddit
Yes, the school knew it was happening, but I had to go back to take a test in a class so i was able to graduate.
Subvet98@reddit
I did in that I didn’t go to school that day but it was an official event I didn’t participate in.
Chea63@reddit
I don't remember it being a big thing. But it always seemed more like a suburban thing, and I went to school in NYC. Definitely did not get any special treatment if you got caught. With social media, now it may be a bigger thing even in the city.
YNABDisciple@reddit
I skipped with the Seniors as a Junior and as a Senior. We had a crazy tradition at graduation where the night before the last day of school we threw a massive keg party and everyone stayed at the party until school and came to school trashed. The teachers including the Principle and Superintendent served us breakfast. I actually attended as a junior and was treated like a senior then missed my last day of senior year because I arrested for sleeping in a car with an open container and possesion of MJ with my buddy. We were tyring to get some shut eye as we organized the party and were exhausted. Spent my last day or senior year in jail.
eurtoast@reddit
Yes. My high school did a senior trip to Disney world every year. I didn't want to go/waste money on that, so I stayed behind. About 70% of the senior class went on the trip, the rest of us were expected to go to class. Thing was, the teachers told us beforehand that class was basically a wash for the Friday (the trip left Thursday night and returned Sunday) as most of the rest of the class wouldn't be present. Myself and a few friends went to the zoo. Once the school found out we skipped and went to the zoo - the kindergarten class was there the same day and someone from the "zoo crew"s sibling was in the class (VERY small school)- the zoo crew got a day of in school suspension. My mom found the whole ordeal hilarious
BroughtBagLunchSmart@reddit
This was "kids will be kids" accepted in my town for all of my schooling. I was looking forward to doing it. When I was in 8th grade the seniors skipped, went to a local state park on a lake that was known for kids partying. Someone had a car phone (late 90s) and one guy called the local radio station to request a song. He said "I am (full name) from (High School) and we are skipping class getting drunk at (State park) before requesting his song. The police showed up about 30 minutes later and busted all of them.
Ichigosbankaii@reddit
Yes, but I didn’t go to the location everyone was supposed to meet up at. I used it to sleep in 😅
FiddleThruTheFlowers@reddit
No. And a lot of my classes didn't do anything that day anyway because they expected nobody to show up. Some of them did something along the lines of "write something and turn it in to prove you were here on senior ditch day and you get a couple points of extra credit." My economics teacher had a specific word problem on the final where writing a specific phrase gave you full credit without actually doing the problem, and he told the three of us who showed up that day what the phrase was and which problem to use it on to reward us.
On the other hand, I took advantage of being one of a handful of people taking a specific AP test. We all decided to skip classes together that afternoon and blame the exam going over. There wasn't any other exam after ours to cause suspicion, we were the only ones there to begin with, and proctors were sent by the district and did not personally know us. Teachers either didn't figure it out and didn't penalize us for not showing, or they figured to let the AP kids have an afternoon off and didn't penalize us.
Or put another way, I was enough of a nerd that even my one time skipping classes for half the day was nerdy.
Powerful-Jacket-5459@reddit
I personally didn't. When I became an adult and was a manager at my work, one of my teenaged employees failed to show up one day. When I got ahold of him, he said, "Well...it's senior skip day." I had to teach him that didn't apply to the real world and he'd be getting a write up for a no-call, no-show from work 😂
luxury_identities@reddit
Yes and no. My senior year was right when covid hit so we left for spring break, then spring break was extended a week, then we just never came back to school 🙃
ProbablyTrueMaybe@reddit
I did dual enrollment and scheduled all my classes for tues/Thursday thinking I'd be more likely to go to school. I was wrong. So not only did I not go to my high-school during senior year but I also skipped my college classes half the time. I was not a smart student when given that kind of freedom but have since learned.
ColoradoCattleCo@reddit
No. Because the year before us on Senior Ditch Day, a guy accidentally shot and killed his best friend and then killed himself. Pretty bad way to end the school year.
wormbreath@reddit
Nah. It wasn’t a thing.
Greasfire11@reddit
Yep! I grew up in the shadow of the Indy 500. Our senior skip days were always Carb Day at the track.
neronga@reddit
That sounds fun af! My dad would always just pull me out of school and call me in sick for carb day when we would go to Indy for the 500 😂
ArcadiaNoakes@reddit
Many classes tried it, but because a some form of parent or doctors note was required, generally a very small number of people actually did it. They were generally all in same clique (i.e. parents had $$$$ and probably did it when they were in HS).
My parents said if I skipped, I'd lose my driving privileges until I could buy my own car. But without a car, I couldn't get to a job. So.....kind of had me there.
Also, this was a private school that had zero issues kicking out a legacy student a few years prior who was also a 3 sport athlete with smaller school D-I offers when he tried to participate. As in....3 weeks from graduation, he couldn't graduate.
Plus my parents both worked two jobs to put us all through private school, so skipping would have been pretty disrespectful to their efforts.
So, no incentive for most students to even try it.
ClarinetsAndDoggos@reddit
Kind of. It was a thing pretty much every senior did at the school I went to from 9th-11th grade. I was really excited to participate when I was a senior. Then my family moved the summer before 12th grade. My new school didn't do it and actively discouraged seniors to organize one. I was upset and my mom was upset for me, so she told me I could pick any day as long as there wasn't a big test or anything and she'd call in to the school and excuse me for the day. I didn't really have friends to participate with at that point anyway since I was only at that school for 12th grade, so I spent the day with my mom going out to lunch and hanging out. It was really fun!
photoguy423@reddit
Yeah. Went to the local amusement park with a friend and friends of his. I wasn’t terribly popular with them because I wouldn’t smoke weed. It was ok
Adventurous_Law9767@reddit
I skipped school all the time. Ironically I didn't on senior skip day. But yes it's a real thing, like half the school was gone (in 2007).
Gen Z are pansies though.
honorspren000@reddit
Our school tried to fight it by scheduling exams and other important things on that day.
Sufficient_Syrup_366@reddit
I did it when I was in HS. Which was pretty nice considering there was a tropical storm that day, so it was good not having to drive in the rain. Still, I didn't really do anything that day to celebrate. Also, I did have a couple of friends who didn't participate, but they were mainly because they missed too many days and didn't want to risk it. For me , I just saved up my absences for the skip day and just for the end of the year in general
sanct111@reddit
Yeah, was a great day. About 20 of us (out of 100 or so) skipped. Went and got breakfast, played paintball, then went to the movies.
donotpassgo2514@reddit
Nope. The admin wouldn’t allow it and threatened with expulsion if we were unexcused that particular day.
neronga@reddit
Of course, but I also skipped plenty of other days and the student body was always organizing some sort of walk-out to protest so me and my friends would just leave and go hang out downtown. I would leave my 10:00 am class practically every day to go out and buy breakfast then come back for my 11:00 am class as well. We didn’t have any staff making sure kids were in class or anything
OldBat001@reddit
Ours was poorly advertised among the class (very cliquey bunch who all wanted to go to the beach and party together), so a lot of us didn't even know when it was.
Jorost@reddit
Kind of. I had mono so I was out for like two weeks, which happen to be when skip day fell.
Iowa50401@reddit
No. I wasn’t that kind of kid.
metricnv@reddit
Yeah, I was pretty baked by lunchtime. I think I skipped the whole last quarter.
PM_Me_UrRightNipple@reddit
No, I had a game that day and if you missed school you couldn’t play
shawmanic@reddit
Senior skip day was really problematic for me. I had very strict parents and the consequences of skipping class would be brutal. The school announced they would treat all absences seriously and contact all parents. While I was kinda nerdy, I wasn't so nerdy to not understand the implications of showing up to school that day, and I did want to do the whole skip to the beach thing.
it really was kind of painful. I ended up pretending to be sick, so I stayed out of school, but, alas, no beach time.
SnowblindAlbino@reddit
We all did-- it was "official" so we took busses to a sort of conference center/resort and spent the entire day screwing around there. Fun.
Faroundtripledouble@reddit
Yes
LightAnubis@reddit
Yes. I went to school but I didn’t attend class.
Coffee-Freckle0907@reddit
Yeah, super fun! About half my class (small school so only about 15 of us) went to a nice lakeside cabin a couple hours away, stayed up all night, played games, did some fun things in town. I have great memories of it.
Ok_Dirt_2401@reddit
Every day! I dropped out and got my GED 🤷♂️
HipsterBikePolice@reddit
No we did a commemoration beer bong at the ol party house and went to our last day of classes
squidthief@reddit
There were two. Students had one, but most people didn't bother and the school just saw it as a decompression day for the students who skipped out. The other was run by the teachers and they took the seniors out to a lake and barbequed for them.
Appropriate_Park313@reddit
Yes
rhos1974@reddit
Yep. Met my husband at the party that night. Our 31st anniversary is today actually!
AmbulanceChaser12@reddit
There wasn't one.
tolgren@reddit
No.
thesweetestberry@reddit
My best friends were seniors when I was a junior so I attended that year, and i did it my senior year as well.
Available_Honey_2951@reddit
No because I was an athlete and we had a tournament semi final game that day! Would have been screwed!
Impossible_Donut2631@reddit
Our high school actually made it an official day out of it and instead of just seniors skipping and doing what they want, they advertised "Senior Skip day Lake Party", where they had pizza, snacks, sodas, setup volleyball nets and other games and actually, a lot of people went!
They-Call-Me-Taylor@reddit
No, I had already missed too much school from skipping earlier in the year so I had to go.
Mushrooming247@reddit
My school announced when there were a few months left that any seniors who skipped on skip day would have to attend summer school to graduate.
But I dropped out and just stopped going shortly after that, never got a diploma, don’t even know if I technically graduated from high school, and do not care. It hasn’t held me back at all in life.
billding1234@reddit
I did not. That was for kids with cars, and I wasn’t one of them.
Key-Mycologist-7272@reddit
I skipped so much school my senior year I nearly got in trouble with the police over it for being truant, even though my grades were fine and I had a 3.5 gpa (more like a 5.2 gpa if we're not adjusting it down). Yes I skipped on senior skip day.
Jdawn82@reddit
We didn’t have one in my high school
hecking-doggo@reddit
Yup. Went to a diner and got breakfast with one of my friends.
QueenieofWonderland@reddit
We technically didn’t have a “skip day” but seniors got out like a week/a few days earlier than everyone else
YOURTAKEISTRASH@reddit
Senior Skip Day was less a rebellion and more a mass hallucination where 300 teenagers collectively convinced themselves the school would evaporate if enough denim jackets and vape clouds gathered in the Walmart parking lot. The teachers pretended to be scandalized but we all knew they were secretly grading papers in their pajamas at home. The true absurdity wasn’t the skipping it was the unspoken pact that we’d all return the next day like nothing happened as if we hadn’t just spent 8 hours mainlining Slurpees and existential dread behind the Taco Bell dumpster. The American education system is just LARPing at this point.
SuretyBringsRuin@reddit
No we didn’t have it as a thing. Of course, we also had an open campus to come and go for lunch and other approved activities.
Some of us who were in the “right” classes were able to regularly translate that into doing what we wanted during several hours of the afternoon. Usually it resulted in time spent at a college baseball game or playing video games at the mall.
CrimsonEagle124@reddit
Kind of. I didn't go to any of my classes but I hung out with my teachers all day cause I knew this would be the last time I would see most of them.
WalkingOnSunshine83@reddit
It wasn’t a thing at my school.
Mickeys_mom_8968@reddit
Yes, it was a special keg party at a different location from our usual keggers 🍻
19Bronco93@reddit
Yes and made up a dozen more skip days while I was there.
According-Drawing-32@reddit
Yes and my parents had no problem with it. Went to the lake for the day.
Sinieya@reddit
Our Senior Skip Day transformed into a protest.
Our school wasn't air conditioned. And in the Midwest...August/September is still hot (and May/June is getting hot).
So, the Senior class got together and had a "honk if you are hot" protest so we could wear shorts ( knee length).
We turned in 10,000 signatures and got the dress code changed. That was late 80s.
throwaway42200j@reddit
By the time skip day rolled around, I had already been accepted to my college and was completely checked out. Sadly, I had to go to school that day because I had cut so many classes prior to it that they were threatening to hold me back from prom/walking at graduation.
Brief_Buddy_7848@reddit
Nope, my parents were teachers so it didn’t even occur to me to do it
_AlwaysWatching_@reddit
Nah I just skipped finals days
womanaroundabouttown@reddit
Yes, but it was scheduled and approved by the school. Anyone who went in wouldn’t have classes because the teachers would use it as their own free period and you’d be stuck in the senior lounge all day alone. We did still have extracurricular after, which was ambitious because we all met up (I think maybe one person in the entire class didn’t come?) in the park and drank and smoked for hours. I was so sick afterwards from alcohol, weed, and too much sun. But it was fun as hell.
3mta3jvq@reddit
Ours was planting trees and bushes at a local park.
WritPositWrit@reddit
No
umnothnku@reddit
I would have, but Covid hit my senior year so we weren't actually in school when it would have happened
RoyalPuzzleheaded259@reddit
No our graduating class (1998) was the first one to be told by administration that if we skipped on skip day we would not be allowed to walk at graduation. They did uphold that even though lots of parents complained after they found out their kids wouldn’t be at graduation.
Head_Razzmatazz7174@reddit
Yes. It was a time honored tradition. My senior year we had a new discipline officer, who decided that it was 'too disruptive' and said any seniors who did skip would get in school detention the next day. Most of the seniors were scared of him, and didn't go.
My reaction: Okay, bet.
I went to the mall the entire day. They knew where I was, I didn't even try to hide it.
Walked in the next day and was told I had detention. I think I was one of the few people that was happy about that, because it gave me a full day to finish a tough essay for one of my classes without being interrupted. The classwork for the day I skipped we were not supposed to be able to make up, but every single one of my teachers ignored that, as I was an honors student.
serioperocabron@reddit
Yeah, then I went back cause my buddies got drunk and I didn’t want to mess up my army status( got a scholarship last minute and decided to do the collage life).
mechanicalpencilly@reddit
No. I was working. In the school. Only 47 people showed up that day. Out of approximately 1800 kids. Yes. 11th and 10th graders skipped too
_hammitt@reddit
Yup! We took all hundreds of desks out of the school, used them to make our class year on the football field, and took the day off.
_hammitt@reddit
FWIW we also did "senior projects" the last month of school after APs, but skip day happened earlier, while classes were still in progress. That said, the school knew when it was happening and we had tacit approval. I think we'd all p much lost our minds from stress and lack of sleep by that point and had become low-key ungovernable anyway.
Context: academically *insanely* intense, competitive, elite private school.
AZOMI@reddit
I participated in as many skip days as possible.
RonPalancik@reddit
I skipped loads of days as a senior
We did a swap day with another school (our senior class went to their school and theirs went to ours)
grixxis@reddit
Yes. New magic set came out that day so my friends and I went to the LGS to split a box and play a few games.
Bullehh@reddit
Yes. Our whole senior class just went to the lake.
theflooflord@reddit
No cause I skipped my whole senior year instead and graduated early lol
cooterbug18@reddit
I graduated in 2020 during the lockdown so the last three months of the school year were fully online and at home, so no
pbmadman@reddit
Yes. I spent 12 hours at the beach with no sunscreen and then ran my battery dead running some speakers. Many regrettable decisions.
Ok-Tourist-1011@reddit
Yes 😂🤣 all of my senior class met up at the lake outside of town and had a great day together and had a BBQ ❤️ one of my favorite memories
causeyouresilly@reddit
Yes, went to the beach with about 100 people. But I would say about 3/4 participated they just went elsewhere.
johnnyblaze-DHB@reddit
Yeah, we all went out to the lake and drank beer all day.
alphaturducken@reddit
Mine was 08/08. School wasn't even in session yet
tranquilrage73@reddit
Yep. We went to an amusement park.
beetlegirl-@reddit
senior skip day was any day i didn't wanna show up
CountChoculasGhost@reddit
Nope. We were told if we had an unexcused absence on that day, we wouldn’t be able to walk at graduation.
By that point most classes were basically over anyways, so it didn’t even really matter.
ActiveDinner3497@reddit
The one I created. 😂😂
_weeb_alt_@reddit
Yup. And my school was small enough that with 99% of the senior class gone, it "legally" wasn't even counted as a school day because only a certain certain percentage of people were at school that day.
Shoshawi@reddit
Most likely. My school was next to an outdoor mall area and in general in a good location for getting places to hang out without a car. I can’t imagine I know anyone who would have gone out of their way not to participate haha
WashuOtaku@reddit
We did not have one.
ALoungerAtTheClubs@reddit
No. I was doing full-time dual enrollment at the local community college, so I barely stepped foot in my HS senior year.
Judgy-Introvert@reddit
Nah. I did that plenty of times throughout high school.
Relevant_Call_2242@reddit
Nah, being at school was my escape from life
Federal_Pickles@reddit
A lot of my senior year of high school was a “senior skip day.” So much so I had to go to truancy court…
Yankee_chef_nen@reddit
I skipped my whole senior year.
Matchboxx@reddit
During my senior year, some of us had a separate vocational school to go to for half the day. It was on the other side of the county. There was a bus service, but seniors could drive. Many of us… didn’t make it there.
vanillablue_@reddit
Yes!
bloopidupe@reddit
We didn't have it
workntohard@reddit
No, to busy with classes. Catching up with senior year credits after moving over summer.
firerosearien@reddit
Unintentionally - I wasn't planning on it but ending up having a really nasty cold anyway
DrMindbendersMonocle@reddit
No
Sorry-Analysis8628@reddit
Our school organized what amounted to a mandatory beach field trip for seniors in lieu of senior skip day. We all thought that was bullshit. So many of us took the bus to the beach as required, then went off to wherever the hell we wanted until pick up time.
chancyboi123@reddit
Sort of, I had my wisdom teeth removed that day so I wasn't in school but it wasn't a fun day off 😂
Mental_Freedom_1648@reddit
No, but we didn't really have one. The school offered to take the seniors to an amusement park if we didn't do a senior skip day, and they upheld their end of the bargain.
jamminontha1@reddit
Indirectly. I was a straight A student and didn't really care about senior skip day, but every class I went into, the door was locked so I couldn't even attend class if I wanted to. So yeah, I had no choice but to leave.
blipsman@reddit
Yeah, I did... but by the time I was a senior, it was basically baked into the calendar/curriculum by the school and teachers so there wasn't anything missed.
DraperPenPals@reddit
No because I burned all of my absences earlier in the year when my dad was in cancer treatment
Vendormgmtsystem@reddit
We didn’t have one lol
Jak03e@reddit
I was in all AP classes my senior year. The AP test happens the first week of May, after that there's nothing left to do.
So for us it was more of a Senior Skip Month.
CtForrestEye@reddit
Yes. We went to the beach. It's only a 35 minute drive.
GSilky@reddit
Pretty much every other day.
bloodectomy@reddit
Yes, but we were on block schedules, so I actually cut two days because fuck em
Turns out that even though it's tradition, your parents still have to excuse the absence. My dad wasn't willing, and my mom deferred to my dad, so I got two days of in-school suspension ("you cut two days of school??? Your punishment is....TO MISS TWO DAYS OF SCHOOL!!!")
Anyway traditions are stupid
machagogo@reddit
Yes. But it wasn't called "Skip Day" just Senior Day.
It was an unofficial day off for seniors, even the teachers knew no one would be in and planned accordingly. Anyone who didn't go to the various events we had planned just sat in classrooms and did nothing all day.
I'm not even sure if it counted as an absence on my record.
With a graduating class of 94 students the teachers/staff knew everyone so it's not like I was lost in the shuffle.
Danibear285@reddit
Brother, every day was skip day
GOTaSMALL1@reddit
Ours was on the school calendar and they planned/canceled classes around it and shit.
Seems kinda stupid for "Senior Ditch Day" when nobody is actually ditching.
Well-Milk@reddit
Yeah and it was a huge mistake, I wanted to impress a girl I liked and I had a 2005 ford focus at the time. Everything was going normal until I decided to try to race my friends I pressed the gas pedal all the way down revved the shit out of my engine and then popped a piston my mom was so pissed that I broke the car and that I skipped school she whooped my ass
SalesTaxBlackCat@reddit
Yes
HorseFeathersFur@reddit
I skipped on a lot more days than just senior skip day. Every time concert tickets went on sale at blockbuster, I skipped school to buy them. Plus, there was a lot to do besides just going to school lol.
anneofgraygardens@reddit
No, I was being a counselor at an elementary school's outdoor ed program at the time. I would have if I'd been in school though. I was kind of bummed to have missed it.