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Student spots loophole, plays hooky for a month
Mail Tribune ^ | December 12, 2003 | SANNE SPECHT

Posted on 12/12/2003 12:54:17 PM PST by yonif

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To: mylife
There's some classes I wish I could have pulled that off.
21 posted on 12/12/2003 1:36:16 PM PST by Dan from Michigan ("if you wanna run cool, you got to run, on heavy heavy fuel" - Dire Straits)
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To: Dan from Michigan
Right!
22 posted on 12/12/2003 1:38:31 PM PST by Syncro
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To: ErnBatavia
I'm envisioning an accountant, atty, someone that might 'need' to spot loopholes.
23 posted on 12/12/2003 1:50:02 PM PST by mrebel2k
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To: yonif
Just wondering: what was this girl doing all day? The article somehow conveniently leaves out that bit of information.

Either she had a job (doubtful), or she was spending it with the skate punks at the park nearest the school (my guess).

She's clearly got some issues -- I hope she can work them out.

24 posted on 12/12/2003 1:50:59 PM PST by r9etb
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To: yonif

Eagle Point High School Principal Mari Brabbin described the incident as "one of those very bizarre situations."
 

Yeah. Like Mari Brabbin being a high school principal.

25 posted on 12/12/2003 1:56:55 PM PST by Fintan (Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.)
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To: mystery-ak
My bet is that she learned enough during her "break" to teach Paris Hilton a thing or two.
26 posted on 12/12/2003 2:00:50 PM PST by Tacis
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To: Dan from Michigan
I agree.

Hey, I worked in the attendance office when I was a senior in HS.
We were all allowed to do stuff like that if we had enough credits & electives to graduate.

Anyway, I ran the computer that called everyone's house if they were out of class.
Strange, but it never called mine, or my girlfriend's, or some of my other buddies when we skipped school!

I never *could* figure that out. ;^)

27 posted on 12/12/2003 2:02:00 PM PST by Constitution Day (Thomas: "Apparently, the marketplace of ideas is to be fully open only to defamers, nude dancers...")
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To: Constitution Day
She needs to be suspended. No, expelled.....
28 posted on 12/12/2003 3:08:43 PM PST by Ronly Bonly Jones
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To: mylife
I did this for an entire semester in high school: Showed up for homeroom(attendance)and showed up for the tests. The rest of the time I was gone.

You sound like my son. From middle school on, I had a terrible time keeping him in class. The 'problem' was, he was attending a school for gifted and talented children, had perfect scores on the national education tests, had taken the SAT in 7th grade and scored at the level of a high schooler. The teachers couldn't do anything except mark him absent because he got excellent grades.

Fortunately, he was a good boy and spent his time away from school reading, not running the mall or causing trouble. Now I've got a 26 yr old who can talk w/me about Austrian school economics, has read the works of the Founding Fathers, is an avid history buff, and could probably teach a class on Constitutional law.

Of course, he's a FReeper.

29 posted on 12/12/2003 3:37:00 PM PST by radiohead
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To: mylife
I did this for an entire semester in high school: Showed up for homeroom(attendance)and showed up for the tests. The rest of the time I was gone.

LOL! I did that my entire senior year. For obvious reasons I do not discuss my high school behavior in front of my daughter, she would take it as permission to do likewise. She would conveniently not listen to the part about how it was the wrong thing to do.

30 posted on 12/12/2003 3:40:41 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (Born in California 1958 - Fled to Washington 2002)
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To: yonif
From the article: "Brabbin said there have been no other incidents like this in her 10-year stint at the school. "

In light of what happened, how the heck would Brabbin know?

31 posted on 12/12/2003 3:47:43 PM PST by William Tell
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To: SandyInSeattle
LOL! I did that my entire senior year. For obvious reasons I do not discuss my high school behavior in front of my daughter, she would take it as permission to do likewise. She would conveniently not listen to the part about how it was the wrong thing to do.

If I find out the boy tries half the stuff I did, He will be in a world of hurt!
My mother laffs and laffs when I talk like that!

32 posted on 12/12/2003 3:49:06 PM PST by mylife
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To: leadpencil1

What's the problem with her name? Too Jewish for you?
33 posted on 12/12/2003 3:56:18 PM PST by stands2reason (What good does it do you to "win" a debate in an insane asylum?)
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To: Ursus arctos horribilis

What does it say besides she's possibly Jewish? Or is being Jewish "Expain it all"? Help me, I don't know the Jewish stereotype you're referring to.
34 posted on 12/12/2003 3:58:40 PM PST by stands2reason (What good does it do you to "win" a debate in an insane asylum?)
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To: mylife
Isn't that amazing? You can actually pick up the boring history textbook and read it in a weekend. Then you can ask for the year-end exam and ace it, and all that in the first week of school.

Then, the next weekend, read your biology textbook, take the final exam and ace it. Then the next weekend read your government class book, take the final exam and ace it. Do that for all your subjects and you'll be out of school in about six weeks.

Who needs 180 days of school!
35 posted on 12/12/2003 4:09:40 PM PST by ladylib
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"Isn't that amazing? You can actually pick up the boring history textbook and read it in a weekend. Then you can ask for the year-end exam and ace it, and all that in the first week of school. Then, the next weekend, read your biology textbook, take the final exam and ace it. Then the next weekend read your government class book, take the final exam and ace it. Do that for all your subjects and you'll be out of school in about six weeks. Who needs 180 days of school!"

I go 365 days a year! LOL!

36 posted on 12/12/2003 4:17:44 PM PST by mylife
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To: GovernmentShrinker
I agree on all points.
37 posted on 12/12/2003 4:20:51 PM PST by King Prout (...he took a face from the ancient gallery, then he... walked on down the hall....)
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To: mystery-ak
She could teach Ferris a thing or two.

I love that silly movie.

38 posted on 12/12/2003 4:21:12 PM PST by RightWingMama
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To: Constitution Day
Sounds like we went to the same school!
39 posted on 12/12/2003 4:23:15 PM PST by sausageseller
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To: ladylib
But books alone don't do it. You cant learn everything in a vacuum.
Kids like the one in this story need inspiration and assistance with difficult concepts. I suspect that the teachers in her school were less than inspirational and that the curriculum was less than challenging.
40 posted on 12/12/2003 4:24:09 PM PST by mylife
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