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Originally Posted by MysticCat
It sounds better if I say I was skipping school. I, along with quite a few others, participated in an extracurricular activity during the morning. Then I went home for lunch. (Seniors could leave school for lunch.) I had been pretty much going non-stop for weeks if not months, so my dad told me I could stay home that afternoon and get some rest if I wanted to.
That afternoon, my mother (the principal of an elementary school) got home and had a fit, since the rule was in order to participate in any extracurricular activity part of the day, you had to be in class the rest of the day. (My dad got the blame from her, not me.) About 8 of us (some of whom really were skipping) got in-school detention for 2 days.
See, just plain "skipping" sounds better.  |
Somehow, I knew it wouldn't be something egregious!
Now that my kids have established themselves as hardworking students with good grades, I have relaxed that rule out of concern for their level of exhaustion too. I'd side with Dad on that one.