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I finally did it, i just ran out and ditched.
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I finally did it, i just ran out and ditched.

We always have these stupid ass assemblies about something like how evil drugs are, how if you get stalked on the internet its your fault for using it, how cheating on tests is immoral, etc. They are loud, the sound quality is bad, they only let us sit in half of the place all squished together when the other half is completely empty. And 80% of the time is just the dean yelling at us. We had one this week, and i had a plan to sneak out with someone, at the last minute he backed out, thats fine, its none of my business if others go or not.
I thought it could never hurt to just check if any doors were unlocked, and i ended up running into a group of kids looking for unlocked doors, i followed them for about five minutes until i heard a kid shouting "YES!" I ran out. And there were about 70 other kids, and probably another 100 at the other open door. It was cold and rainy outside but i ran for about 4 minutes, then when i felt safe i started walking home, but i went the wrong way....oops

I ended up calling my mom for instructions, and the first thing she said was "when you ditch school it is customary not to call your mom asking for directions" turns out she was more mad at me for going the wrong way than ditching. I ended up in another town eventually, and i probably ended up walking at least 3 miles in total, but eventually i got home. Still before i would have if i stayed.

And you know what the best part was? we won this time. We, the students fucking won. Because so many parents were calling the school saying that their kids had doctors appointments during that time, and so many kids snuck out, and so many people wrote complaining about how pointless it was and so many people couldn't get everything organized that the school announced they will be discontinuing the assembles. Yes kids got in trouble and yes they are trying to track down the people who snuck out so they can get them in trouble, but in the long term we won.

I still cant believe the students actually fucking won. Biggrin Just thought i'd share that story of victory here in case anyone is in need of inspiration.
11-21-2009 04:39 PM
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Re: I finally did it, i just ran out and ditched.

Thumbsup

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Re: I finally did it, i just ran out and ditched.

Cool story, bro

Your mom's pretty awesome. If my mommy found out I ditched an assembly, no matter how pointless... *shudder*

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retnoblastoma Wrote:Cool story, bro

Your mom's pretty awesome. If my mommy found out I ditched an assembly, no matter how pointless... *shudder*
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I used to be "The circus" as I forgot my login, but then hey-ho I remembered it.
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retnoblastoma Wrote:Cool story, bro

Your mom's pretty awesome. If my mommy found out I ditched an assembly, no matter how pointless... *shudder*
+1

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Congratulations.
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Re: I finally did it, i just ran out and ditched.

Sounds fun.
But i generally stay at my school assemblies because they usually have some semi-good music.
Also, there are way~ to many teachers standing around, i don't think i'd be able to walk right in front of them without them noticing...
beside, i usually just sit there and talk with Thade and draw/write.

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Fucking win.

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Epic win. Thumbsup

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Good job buddy.

Also, your mom sounds cool, lol.

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Re: I finally did it, i just ran out and ditched.

Ok here is an update.

No detentions or anything so far, but on the morning announcements the guy in charge of our school decided to take an extra 3 minutes or so to make us feel guilty. He was talking about how these were supposed to make our school better and special and so and so. And then he started going off topic and quoted Martin Luther King and some holocaust survivor who said something like "you don't know the privileges you have until they are taken away" and i thought that was totally inappropriate because the guy was obviously referring to basic human essentials like food and for him to bring up the holocaust to try to make us feel bad was offensive, especially considering our school has a significant Jewish population (im not sure about any statistics, but im guessing around 15-20% or so of the school is Jewish) and their grandparents or so could have been holocaust survivors. Now nobody listens to the morning announcements, but i did and i asked some other kids if they thought it was inappropriate and they said none of them really listened, so i asked some teachers to clarify what he said (they couldn't actually say what he said was stupid so i asked for clarification to bring the subject up) of course most of them said things like "i didn't hear, i was in the bathroom" but one teacher (special ed, go figure) did admit he thought it was a dumb time to bring that up.

And yeah my Mom is pretty understanding about me hating school and stuff, she knows i am a decent student and i dont ditch class and that i act appropriately when im challenging something so she wasn't to mad because she figured if it was important i wouldn't ditch.
11-26-2009 05:05 AM
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