Have you ever managed to escape school successfully?

[Du4lity (they/them)]

Without anyone knowing (except for any students that didn't tell anyone)? I haven't even attempted to escape school before.

[Violent Rainbow]

Yes many times, but eventually we got caught and then they started locking the gates during school hours.Kids started digging secret tunnels under the fence so we could escape.

[𝕎𝔸𝕃𝕋𝔼ℝ]

You know I still would have to go there the very next day, so no point in even thinking about it.

[avowed]

I had nightmares about trying to escape school but it always felt like prison

[Your_White_Knight]

Originally posted by Pacman:

Have you ever managed to escape school successfully?

Without anyone knowing (except for any students that didn't tell anyone)? I haven't even attempted to escape school before.

Yes... I graduated from school

They haven't noticed I'm gone yet... and it's been quite some time.

[Adversary]

You mean ditching school? Never intentionally did that, though as a sped I had a hell of a lot of behavioral problems. And sometimes that meant my mother had to come get me - which was kind of an issue when I went to school two, three towns away from where I lived and she had to take the bus to do that.

I recall the ditch day that the school I went to for senior year did. Was something that the seniors did every year. I think I was one of the handful who didn't. Granted, also was one of the handful who didn't, say, go to prom or Sadie Hawkins or any of those other events. But then again, it was the first year since second grade that I was more or less in the general population and not segregated from it along with the rest of the special education students.

…Did wind up getting more applause at graduation than the valedictorian though so that was nice.

[Azami]

No. Mostly because there is no reason to. In some ways, I'm glad I grew up as a socially awkward gaming loner as I didn't find the need to party, do drugs, or be part of whatever trend people are up to.

Though at the same time, I do want to try something else instead of gaming.

[Fajita Jim]

Yeah. Schools were pretty open circa 1980-1992, you could pretty much come and go without raising any attention. Skipping a class and coming back for the others was common, as was just skipping a whole day. Overall grades weren't so reliant on testing back then.

[Rio]

Why would I want too? I loved school. It was home I tried to run from.

[GamingOnly69 Retreats_To_Cave]

Escape sounds like a prettty serious word
We called it Wagging and that word sounds about as serious as i ever took it
I was not suited to high school

[ṼṏẌṏḭḊ]

The teachers were pretty easy at our high school. If we had done our work, we were pretty much free to do whatever. We'd go home or to the shops down the road, then either head back if we had more classes or just go home.

[Du4lity (they/them)]

Bump

[Rio]

If you mean if I ever skipped class.... Well.... Yeah Typing class we had a really strict teacher, so one day I skipped.

In college I had a french teacher that wouldn't leave me alone, Because everyone but me and this one girl who dropped out had already had french in high school, so they took it in college as an easy A. But I was just like "Wow french, I tried spanish in high school but i didn't do well. Lets try french Yay! it'll be fun!"

And me as a shy introvert in the french class. Every class.... "Today were are reading from our french book. Lets go down the list saying the french sentence, they do fine. It gets to me. The rest of the class, its the teacher standing over me having me talk the whole class while everyone stares at me. The girl dropped out. I asked my guardian "Hey I'm having trouble with my french can we practice?" and she said "No! I'm too old I don't need to learn any of this".

And yeah... I started skipping french class to the library to read books like the secret of narnia. And I got so hooked on it and other books I ended up skipping most everything that semester. Even classes I didn't intend too, because some classes were wonderfully fun.

[Zekiran]

I couldn't get up early. My natural circadian is 'go to bed at 3am, get up at 9 to 10 am', and that simply means... Early classes were absolute hell for me. Even classes I loved, I just. Didn't go to.

Of course, that did mean I failed 3 classes in the course of 2 years in high school and eventually graduated with a 1.6 gpa - in the gifted program, mind you... most of my classes were advanced, but some I just Did Not Go To.

If I could have started classes at 10 or even 9 instead of SEVEN FIFTY in the morning? I would have probably graduated on the honor roll. It's not that I am not smart or don't enjoy learning: I love learning things and applying knowledge. I just couldn't do it within the time frame that was absolutely necessary for... reasons.

[Schindler's Lifts]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

If I could have started classes at 10 or even 9 instead of SEVEN FIFTY in the morning? I would have probably graduated on the honor roll. It's not that I am not smart or don't enjoy learning: I love learning things and applying knowledge. I just couldn't do it within the time frame that was absolutely necessary for... reasons.

I still question that aspect of school. Kids are required to report to school at 7:15 am, which means waking up at around 6:30 am (often earlier), getting ready, not even have time for breakfast, and go to school before sunrise. And kids have to do this for 10 years before they can attend higher education with more flexible class timings.

I could be wrong, but I don't think making children drag themselves out of bed before dawn and rushing them to school before sunrise is a healthy environment for children to grow up in.

[AdahnGorion]

Originally posted by Zekiran:

I couldn't get up early. My natural circadian is 'go to bed at 3am, get up at 9 to 10 am', and that simply means... Early classes were absolute hell for me. Even classes I loved, I just. Didn't go to.

Of course, that did mean I failed 3 classes in the course of 2 years in high school and eventually graduated with a 1.6 gpa - in the gifted program, mind you... most of my classes were advanced, but some I just Did Not Go To.

If I could have started classes at 10 or even 9 instead of SEVEN FIFTY in the morning? I would have probably graduated on the honor roll. It's not that I am not smart or don't enjoy learning: I love learning things and applying knowledge. I just couldn't do it within the time frame that was absolutely necessary for... reasons.

That is because our world is discriminative and wants to fit us all down to one box.