WHAT RECENTLY HAPPENED AT MY SCHOOL...

Quite frankly, I believe it. Kids'll take any excuse for a day off from school, even those who enjoy school. I know a few times where at my own school all but a few took the day off because, well, they could. Kids'll do it if they have a good excuse not to, whether they're cowardly or not doesn't factor into the decision.

Hell, one of those days I mention Mum forced me to go since I'd missed school for being sick. There were about 5 people who showed up in my year level. A handful of students all told. And this was for an end of the year, let's do fun stuff instead of school work day. I can just imagine that the numbers would drop to 0 in the case of an actual perceived threat.

LockeZ, I think what you're failing to take into account is a few things:
- Parents talking to each other, for one. Word does get around about stuff to do with scares like this. I haven't had first-hand experience, but one of my cousins who went to school in the city, had a bomb scare at her school one day (the culprit was caught from what she told me) and her parents forced her to stay home the next day, even though she didn't tell them about it. (They work late and she hadn't had the chance to talk to them before they told her she wasn't going to school the next day - they'd heard from another parent about it). It does happen and I'd imagine a few days of bomb scares would make it even more of a wide-spread thing.
- Kids really will take any chance to take a day off. Even if it's just to hit the books and study up on finals or things that they've fallen behind on. Or just to have a day off and do nothing. Any excuse will do. Something like that? Hell yeah, they won't turn up. Legit excuse to not go to school? Pfft, the chances of any kids turning up is pretty low.

It's not a big leap in logic to see how easy it is for no kids to turn up.


That said, Icy, chill (heh). People are allowed to agree or disagree; believe or not as they want. We allow people to question the validity of claims. If you really want to prove the legitimacy of your story, I'm sure the newspaper in your area would have covered it and it wouldn't take much to find a back-issue or link somewhere. Not that you actually need to do such a thing, but if you don't then understand that people are likely to keep questioning as to the truth of your claim. And they're allowed to as long as they're not being assholes about it.

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I think the bigger question you should ask yourself in all of this is... if my life were going to end suddenly in a fiery explosion, shouldn't I be doing something better than sit through French class listening to "Madamoiselle" drone on about verb tenses?

Next year: ask parents to homeschool you, and do things like vacations while studying. Maybe take a road trip.

But I don't like homeschool... you can get better education at a public/private school with certified teachers.

Aaaaaaactually, take it from one who completed high school and various other schooling - you'd probably learn more stuff that you need to know from home schooling than you would in school. There's a shit ton of stuff they don't teach you in school that they absolutely should, and a lot of the stuff they do teach is redundant and out-dated. The only classes you really need are English, basic Science and basic Math, unless you're going into a specific field of study.

The rest of it?

Stuff you can teach yourself and learn just by reading books. I've learned more outside of school than in and the stuff I learned myself stuck with me better than what I learned in school... and I was a Grade A student all the way through.

Honestly, no-one who isn't a scientist or marine biologist needs to know how whales work. Why do I need to know that? I live in the middle of an arid country, I'm not likely to ever meet a whale or get the chance to see its insides.

But hey, at least I never learned stuff I'll need to know like how to balance a checkbook and what a pap-smear is all about!!!! Oh, wait... -.-