Skipping Class by Javier Solis

I want to share my experience when I was a freshman. Well, first of all when I left middle school and entered high, many rules changed and that kind of affected me. Skipping, getting to class late, and getting passes to do some other stuff are most likely things that freshmen have trouble with these days. When I used to skip, I thought it would be fun and that nobody would find out, but the thing about skipping is that it makes your classes harder because of the fact that you are not getting the information from the class for the day that you were skipping. Also if you skip class too much you will not get any credit for it. Most of my friends used to skip in the bathrooms for hours, and it’s not even fun. Taking classes might be a little boring, but if you pay attention to it, you are going to get interested in that class.

Now that I’m a senior, I realize that doing that stuff like skipping is not going to help you out in your future. Today's high school students say they are bored in class, because they dislike the material and experience inadequate teacher interaction. When I used to skip, I got caught several times and it was for a stupid reason, being in the bathroom wasn’t a good idea since I could have been learning and talking to my friends at the same time.

If I could go back to those classes and learn what I didn’t because I chose to skip I would, but most students do not think like that. Now, students drive to school and it’s easier to skip and not go to school and not get caught. To me skipping is not a good idea because you are going to fail your classes just because you have too many absences. For example, some students do really well in some classes but don’t even get the credit for it only because of too many absences and for me that’s dumb. High school is a really good experience for every freshman so there is no reason to skip classes and not get credit for having too many absences. Also if you get caught skipping there are some punishments that you have to deal with just because of your mistakes.

One of the punishments is ISS. ISS teachers don’t let you sleep nor are you allowed to do anything fun. ISS is really boring and a bad experience. I have been there a couple of times and believe me, I prefer to stay in my classes more than being in ISS. There is a lot of stuff I could tell you about skipping and why it’s bad, but most of the freshmen are going to find out for themselves, and they will realize that skipping classes is not good for their own future. I shared my experience with them so they can know that skipping classes has several punishments all of which are not fun. I just want to tell all the freshmen to get on track since it’s their first year in high school so they can get used to it. High school is a really good experience and we in high should notice that.