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[quote=Anonymous]I haven't read the full discussion, but I wanted to offer my story in for context.

I graduated from Wootton about 10-15 years ago. For the majority of high school, I deliberately skipped about 20% of school. I tried not to miss more than 20%, because (at the time) you could only excuse 20% of absences with a parent's note. Sometimes, I would miss even more school and started accumulating unexcused absences. If you received more than 5 unexcused absences, you would "lose credit (LC)" for the course. There was a process for appealing the LC, which I always did successfully.

My parents knew that I was skipping school, but didn't see how accumulating unexcused absences helped me. So they either signed the notes or let me write notes on their behalf. Ultimately, my poor attendance turned out to be no big deal. After high school, I went to Montgomery College for a year. I then transferred to University of Maryland. I had an awesome college experience. I got a great job after graduating which developed that into an awesome career that I continue to love.

I don't regret skipping class because I remember how unhappy attending high school made me. If anything, I wish that I had gone less.[/quote]

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