TEENS: If a project was due and you weren't done with it, would you skip school?

[maryann c]

We had this REALLY REALLY hard essay due in English friday.

My teacher only gave us four nights to do it. Since it was the week before vacation, the teachers went intense with the work so we all save the project for thursday night.

On twitter, EVERYONE agreed with me that the essay took much more thought and was much harder than we thought it was.

I started it at 8:00(after work and other homework) and I didn't finish until one in the morning.

My essay was bad because I got really tired doing it. But I did it, and I turned it in on time.A bunch of other girls in my class didn't finish it, so their mom let them skip and now they have the whole vacation to do it.

Is that fair? Plus, some girls even came to school with their essay and my teacher was like "Don't worry about it....Just bring it in after vacation."

Seriously? Should I have skipped school? I could have put MUCH more time into my essay.

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You can't do that at my school. If you don't hand an assignment in the exact day it is due, you will automatically fail, no excuses. But what I normally do is stay at home to finish the assignment and then arrive at school right at the end of the day to hand it in.

[NIKKKOLE.]

If it's an important essay I usually skip school but it's good that you didn't because it teaches you how to deal with time and deadlines. There's no point getting annoyed over it because you've already handed it in. If its not graded with the grade you wanted then rewrite it? Or isn't that allowed.
But no, it's not fair.

[blvckhippy.]

I completely understand what you mean. I get essays to write a lot in my History class and thr work can be so overwhelming. For me, I force myself to stay up which means I lose a lot of sleep. Normally at my school the only way you would be excused from handing in work late is if you have a note from your parent(s) asking if you may have extra time to complete it but normally you're just given an extra day otherwise if not you're just failed. If the teacher feels really generous sometimes they would give you an extra week but yeah I would've skipped if it was really that hard, although I've never skipped because my mom doesn't like it when I skip school. Or just genuinely explain to the teacher that it was difficult and you tried. Even if you didn't do well, you still have other chances to do better.

[ǝƃıɐd ʎqqɐ]

In my school, that's not an option. If you skip school, you have to hand it in EARLIER than if you show up. If you aren't in school, you have to email it by 7:25 in the morning (when the school day starts), but if you go to school then you hand it in in whatever block you have english. If I were in that situation, I'd probably go in late so that I would have an extra hour and a half to work on it or sleep.

I had three essays and a math quiz today, most of them assigned last week or this week, so I know the feeling. I went to bed around 1 or 2 every night (starting monday), and skipped nearly all my extracurriculars. But I'm used to sleeping 4-5 hours a night. Out of my 4 classes this semester (weird scheduling, our classes are 90 minutes for half the year, then they switch), I have three AP's and an hours. But I want to go to a good school, so I make it work. I really hate people that skip school so easily, especially to avoid a test or handing something in. It just seems kind of lazy and cheap. I work hard and show up and I get the grades to prove it.

[K]

If I was that teacher, I would impose university level rules. 10% penalty PER DAY for every day late.

[piratechick96]

Yup, you should have skipped



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