"Senior Skip Day"-come to school, or you won't be allowed to go to your prom

NEW MARKET, AL -- Buckhorn High School students planning to sleep in Friday for "Senior Skip Day" got a rude awakening -- come to school, or you won't be allowed to go to your prom Saturday night.

An email from the school's administration was sent to teachers Friday morning stating that any junior or senior who missed more than half a day Friday would not be allowed to attend tonight's prom.

Amanda Richardson, 18, said Friday that many students had no idea that skipping school that day carried such consequences. She said administrators should have told students sooner.

"If I didn't have a computer or a cell phone, I wouldn't have known," said Richardson, a senior. "I would have gone to prom and been sent home."

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2011/03/buckhorn_seniors_angry_over_se.html

An example: Some guys are/were trying to start a brewpub in Montgomery. State law says that breweries can only operate in counties that had a brewery before prohibition. And if you sell beer onsite you can't sell offsite. And if they wanted to serve food they had to have a restaurant with seating for at least eighty.Of course, like the rest of the country Alabama is desperate for jobs, but holy ten commandments on a granite slab, open up a joint that makes and sells beer? Why it was only a few years ago ya couldn't even advertise ya sold beer. every store sold "cold beverages".

...the seniors let us teachers go to their school.

Such magnanimity in people so young is rare.

looked the other way.

After 4 years of high school why can't seniors be allowed to have one day, just one day of feeling independent? That too is educational.

Exactly how I feel.
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Don't adults ever get tired of being kil-joy snots?

will know to schedule Skip Day after the prom. Then the admin can come up with another evil plan to punish them one more time before they escape to adulthood.

on "Senior Cut Day." I was in a class room doing something with an English teacher, since he had the period free. James the student sauntered in. The teacher looked up and said "James, you dumb ass it's cut day."
Most of my class went up to Lake Anza in Tilden Park in the Berkeley hills and had a picnic on our Senior Cut day.
Things were different back in the 70's I guess.

Why don't teachers just schedule exams that day?

it was great, actually -- one of the last opportunities that we had to spend fun time with many of our classmates. I still have great memories of the day.

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Paleolithic, we didn't have a senior ditch day. Darn.

My kids did, though, and it was a pretty established tradition at their school. It was set up far enough in advance that the teachers all knew it was coming, and were probably quite happy to have a day free of the seniors by that point.

Our son has had two skip days already this school year but they plan it on days where most of them probably wouldn't go anyway (testing days which seniors have already done).

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Our prom was in late April..final week of school was the last week of May..final grades were submitted the 3rd week of may, so Senior skip day was AFTER grades were submitted, but before the last day of school.. we knew how to work it:)