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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lots of kids at my kid's high school seem to miss because they are overloaded. Got an academic competition on Thursday morning? Miss Wednesday to prep. Got a big outside project due Friday at midnight? Stay up all night Thursday and miss Friday to sleep. Travel for this and that extracurricular and miss school because of it. Usually work can easily be made up.

Funny thing is my kid's highschool gives lunch detentions for tardies but doesn't even call if your kid skips class. My kid (similar to above) will occasionally skip in the library to study. Literally no one cares.

It's wild. [/quote]

This! There is a lot of skipping by kids in honors/AP classes. If my son realizes there is going to be an assembly or a substitute where the online he can tell the the assignment is to watch a video he prefers to skip class to watch the video speeded up. Other kids miss when there is a test to get an extra day to study and ask around about how hard the test is / what was covered.

My son had an AP calculus class where the tests were on Fridays. So many kids would miss class Friday in order to have the weekend to study. Then the problems was so many kids were absent Friday that the teacher just had the absent kids take the test on Monday. Meanwhile the teacher had the other kids just get a head start on the next topic by reading the book and working on problems by themselves. The class was first period so my son would often just miss that Monday class. [/quote]

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