your ass is mine....



Damn foiled by the cops again

Save Mathew!

That's it?

I still hold Kirby High's record - 127 days straight-up skipped in my first freshman year.

Still passed half of my classes.

I guess it's pretty serious.

strange how cutting back with aging buildings leads to things like this. Strange.

Sick building syndrome can be a pretty big frickin' deal.

My high school was closed and demolished about 3 years after I graduated, since they investigated and the black mold infestation was so bad it cost less to demolish the building and build a brand new school than it would have cost to clean properly. During my time there, we usually had an evacuation at least once a month because, the theory went, someone set off a stink bomb in the vents again. Turns out that was spores.

After 3 years in that building, about 60% of the student population during that time has respiratory problems of some flavor or another. I've got cold-triggered asthma, though it seems to be getting better over time. Also a pretty severe toxic reaction to black mold spores. My sister, who was attending the year they condemned the building, also has asthma. We got off relatively lucky, compared to some.

Nobody else in our family on either side has respiratory issues. It was entirely the school, especially since symptoms seem to be improving the longer we've been out of there.

shiat, I hope he doesn't die.

/I can't handle summer school

How many times?

dustman81: He asked for a car and got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign?

53... 52... 51... 50...

Of course, the answer is to cut the school budgets.

I teach in an elementary school and I'm constantly sick. I scrub down the tables, chairs, and desks every night and still feel awful. I decided to crack open the windows (a big no-no) to get fresh air in the room and miraculously I'm able to breathe and don't feel as crappy.

Next time he's going to have to cough up a lung

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Matt pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

Class of 1979.

Illness? What the hell is that?

It has to be:

1) Preferably a close relative has died. Note: you can do this every year in school, that's 6 or so close relatives per year.
2) Contagious Diseases: You may have got "Mono" from the Health / Phys Ed Teacher, you may have "head lice" (=6 day automatic), athletes foot or planters warts (showers are out, so is school), as a last resort: Actually be sick from a cold or something.
3) Be Sick. Staying up late, missing school and not eating properly will probably make you sick at some point, so, good. If you are actually sick, you will probably want to limit your social media to 12 hours a day and refrain from pleasuring yourself until the crisis has passed. Oh and show up sick, so they send you home.
4) For extra points, go out the night you are "well", and then call in sick the day after, claiming "I am good, but I just don't want to risk getting anyone at the office sick" "I'll be in tomorrow"

Mix it up. One day is it a cold, the next day, it could be Lupus.

All he needs is that nurse that likes to fark.

GAT_00: Go to an allergist. I'd bet quite a bit your kid is deathly allergic to most kinds of mold.

/really allergic to mold

Beware of the man accosting you on the street with a bag of green bread and demanding your wallet.

I don't think I have any restraining orders in your jurisdiction ...

Surool: My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Matt pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.


Thank you, Surool.

System600: One day is it a cold, the next day, it could be Lupus.



/sorry

53 days? WTF.

Actually, I'd call BS, but I had a few kids in my classes miss 15-20 days due to mono. And given our school's attendance policy(Miss more than 10/semester - Can't go above a C, Miss more than 20 - auto fail), I'm inclined to believe it was real. Especially given the toxic mold stories in the thread.

/Loving the next 4 months. I didn't get my annual November coughing up blood episode, so the December-March nasal/throat infections might not show up (and haven't so far). So that means I'm in the clear until April when all the flowers come in, and I spend 3 days flat on my back drowning in my own phlegm. Of course, May-August are pretty good, but then Ragweed season and Leaf season Plus a tad of bronchitis cause November again.
//Missed maybe 2 days due to illness during school. Simple policy - If I am physically(can't stand up, vomiting, diarrhea) or mentally (I'm having hallucinations from caffeine withdrawal and afraid of wandering into traffic) incapable of getting to school/work, I don't come in. So a simple respiratory infection wasn't worth noticing.

meh, part timer-
both Freshman and Sophomore year 90 out 90 in, or so.

Some make up work and I was good to go.
Didn't want me there - the feeling was mutual

Our hospitals and schools are having this problem alot here

I never missed any days in school, but I was literally allergic to a girl in high school math.

She was an African-American girl who was into into changing her hairstyle as often as she changed her underwear. This was the 1970s and hypo-allergic beauty products were unheard of. The only thing I can figure was it was something she was using on her hair.

She was seated right behind me. A couple of minutes into class and I would be sneezing and coughing. My eyes would be watering, and my nose would be running like you wouldn't believe. I couldn't concentrate and ultimately flunked that class. Meanwhile, the girl was taking this personally and when the teacher wasn't looking, she'd give me a slap to the back of the head. The only time I was okay was when she was absent.

I complained to the teacher, but she thought that I was trying to get out of sitting next to an African-American student (They had just started busing Black students in rom across town and there were all kinds of mischief between the White and Black students). I ultimately flunked that class and then they put me into a remedial match class from Hell. The following year, I stopped taking math classes altogether.

I knew a kid in elementary school who was out for over 53 days one school year. It turned out she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

/CSB
//She beat it, and she's still around as far as I know

Coelacanth: I never missed any days in school, but I was literally allergic to a girl in high school math.

She was an African-American girl who was into into changing her hairstyle as often as she changed her underwear. This was the 1970s and hypo-allergic beauty products were unheard of. The only thing I can figure was it was something she was using on her hair.

She was seated right behind me. A couple of minutes into class and I would be sneezing and coughing. My eyes would be watering, and my nose would be running like you wouldn't believe. I couldn't concentrate and ultimately flunked that class. Meanwhile, the girl was taking this personally and when the teacher wasn't looking, she'd give me a slap to the back of the head. The only time I was okay was when she was absent.

I complained to the teacher, but she thought that I was trying to get out of sitting next to an African-American student (They had just started busing Black students in rom across town and there were all kinds of mischief between the White and Black students). I ultimately flunked that class and then they put me into a remedial match class from Hell. The following year, I stopped taking math classes altogether.

Time to start taking Math again.

I missed thirty something days of school my senior year of high school. I wasn't sick. I just didn't care to go.

I'd show up on test days, though. Still graduated valedictorian.

\high school was a joke

Thorak: Sick building syndrome can be a pretty big frickin' deal.

My high school was closed and demolished about 3 years after I graduated, since they investigated and the black mold infestation was so bad it cost less to demolish the building and build a brand new school than it would have cost to clean properly. During my time there, we usually had an evacuation at least once a month because, the theory went, someone set off a stink bomb in the vents again. Turns out that was spores.

After 3 years in that building, about 60% of the student population during that time has respiratory problems of some flavor or another. I've got cold-triggered asthma, though it seems to be getting better over time. Also a pretty severe toxic reaction to black mold spores. My sister, who was attending the year they condemned the building, also has asthma. We got off relatively lucky, compared to some.

Nobody else in our family on either side has respiratory issues. It was entirely the school, especially since symptoms seem to be improving the longer we've been out of there.

Where the fark ya go to school? Detroit?

Why Yes I Am A Wizard: GAT_00: Go to an allergist. I'd bet quite a bit your kid is deathly allergic to most kinds of mold.

/really allergic to mold

Beware of the man accosting you on the street with a bag of green bread and demanding your wallet.

I don't think I have any restraining orders in your jurisdiction ...

Either that or some really really skanky old biatch who threatens to sit down and spread her legs.

d-fens99: Of course, the answer is to cut the school budgets.

No but the answer is to start firing administrative staff who don't catch this sort of thing. It's not terribly difficult for a school principal to figure out his absenteeism is substantially higher than another nearby school and that the causes are frequently asthma or allergy related. It's not unreasonable to expect an educator typically with a Phd. to be able to spend a couple hours on Wikipedia to find out how to make a rudimentary diagnosis of a potential mold or similar problem and get the school board to lay down a few hundred bucks for an expert to verify.

The answer to most of this country's educational shortcomings is to start holding the people being paid tax dollars responsible.

OSHA would certainly hold the manager of a factory responsible if they forced people to show up for work under similar circumstances.

Examples like this only further the justifications for charter school systems. I don't necessarily support charter schools, but there are plenty of public school systems nation wide leaving the public with little other choice. Cutting school funding is just the public expressing their disappointment with the current state.

Same thing happened to me in school. I used to be sick at least 2 days a week. Why? Because school sucked and I thought it was better to stay and home and read Dickens than going to school and learning basic grammar I already knew, it was better to stay at home and learn statistics rather than going to school and learning basic arithmetic, and it was better to stay and home and learn C and Z80 assembly rather than going to school and learn basic DOS commands.

Staging diseases is fairly simple, specially when you have a high IQ and are therefore a great liar.

Nobody thought that maybe, just maybe, kids don't want to go to school because it's farking awful?

And here I was winning the VFW Perfect Attendance Award.

geez, all we had to worry about when I was in elementary school was the asbestos tile, and asbestos lining on the radiator pipes.
/and a hot dose of H

my mates little brother missed 164 days of school last year. first year of high school.

his mum did nothing, and let me tell you this: the school did less. ha

they make themselves sound so prestigious

meyerkev: Actually, I'd call BS, but I had a few kids in my classes miss 15-20 days due to mono.

I had that when I was 15. It was quite a rough case. I just felt so weak and lethargic, I was off school for over a month.

thisispete: meyerkev: Actually, I'd call BS, but I had a few kids in my classes miss 15-20 days due to mono.

I had that when I was 15. It was quite a rough case. I just felt so weak and lethargic, I was off school for over a month.

One of my teachers described it like this:

"So my doctor said I had mono, and I was feeling perfectly fine. So he said to try some minor physical activity. So I moved a basket of laundry, and slept for 30 hours straight."

Surool: My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Matt pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

Thank you Simone.

almafuerte: Same thing happened to me in school. I used to be sick at least 2 days a week. Why? Because school sucked and I thought it was better to stay and home and read Dickens than going to school and learning basic grammar I already knew, it was better to stay at home and learn statistics rather than going to school and learning basic arithmetic, and it was better to stay and home and learn C and Z80 assembly rather than going to school and learn basic DOS commands.

Staging diseases is fairly simple, specially when you have a high IQ and are therefore a great liar.

Nobody thought that maybe, just maybe, kids don't want to go to school because it's farking awful?

You were reading Dickens and learning Z80 assembly in 3rd grade? I call BS. Or did you just not read the article?

Also, high IQ doesn't always correspond to being a great liar. Sometimes quite the contrary.

krackpipe:
Time to start taking Math again.

You have no idea how many calculators I own. I have four different ones on just my iPad.

Christ, this thread is rife with pussies.
When I went to school, we got fed moldy Armstrong 933 ceiling tiles for lunch, and we liked it.

libranoelrose: Mr. Potatoass: Christ, this thread is rife with pussies

Tebow won't save you now.

Been a Packers fan since '66 (I would have been 5)

/Thanks Dad