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Skipping school can be quite difficult. If you're going to pretend to be sick, then a day off from school will require you to prepare and considerable acting skills. Even if you miss classes for a good reason, missed assignments will accumulate. But there are days when there is absolutely no energy to go to school! This is where our tips on how to convince your parents to leave you at home – for real or imagined reasons – come in handy.

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Stay at home if you are experiencing some kind of shock

For example, if you recently lost a family member, friend, or other person you were close to, your grief is a good reason to stay home and not go to school. Be honest with your parents about how much the loss has affected you.

  • If the tragedy befell you but not your parents, you may think that it will be difficult for them to understand you. Grief is a universal feeling and most people can put themselves in your shoes and give you time to process the loss.
  • However, you should understand that the period of sadness must end someday. Intense sadness can last for quite a long time, and it can be difficult for you to extricate yourself from this situation on your own. If you feel that after a few days to a week you are still unable to go to school, you should talk to a psychologist and ask him to help you through your grief.

Be honest if you are being bullied at school

If you are the victim of a bully or a group of bullies at school, talk to your parents or other loved ones about it. Explain how difficult your school life has become as a result of the bullying and ask that you be allowed to stay away from school for a day or two until things settle down.

  • Many students make the mistake of not talking about being bullied. You may worry that you will be considered weak, called a “rag”, or that you can make things worse if you talk about it. Nothing will get better if you don't take steps to stop bullying, and during your teenage years, asking parents, teachers, and other adults for help is one of the most effective ways to stop bullying.
  • Bullying can have long-term effects, such as causing anxiety, depression, or insomnia. Take care of your future by talking about bullying if it occurs.


Ask to skip school

Tell Mom and Dad that you want to spend a special day with them and let them take the day off from work. This plan can work especially if you're graduating high school soon and going to a higher education institution in another city, or if it's going to be an easy day at work for you and your parents (for example, you don't have any tests and your parents don't have urgent assignments at work). ).

Get permission for a “mental health” day

It is important to talk to parents about anxiety and stress. Adults often forget how difficult school life can be, when in fact, the stress level during study is quite high. If you're going through the usual school-related stress, it might be more beneficial for you to deal with it and get through it all. If stress, anxiety, and depression become more of a problem, tell a parent or counselor about it and ask for a day without school.

  • If you suspect that you may be developing a serious mental health problem, such as depression or an anxiety disorder, ask your parents to make an appointment with your doctor. This can signal the seriousness of your problem to your parents, and if you do have some kind of disorder, then going to the doctor will help you control your condition.


Stay at home if weather or nature conditions require it

In the event of a severe storm, flood, or other circumstances that make commuting to school dangerous, your school may close for a period of time. If the weather conditions are dangerous, but the school does not close for some reason, it is better for you to stay at home early.

  • Usually parents or educators will help you figure out how bad the weather is for staying home, so you may not have to convince anyone of anything. If parents stay at home weather conditions, they will be more willing to leave you at home.

Late on purpose

Incorporate some delays into your morning routine, finish your morning chores a few minutes late so you won't be able to get to school on time.

  • Dress very slowly. Soak up breakfast so you have to change. Get dressed again…very slowly.
  • Pretend you can't find something you need, like one shoe or a gym uniform. Find it eventually, but let it take you 5-10 minutes.
  • Complain loudly about having a bad day; shed a tear if necessary. If you're lucky, your parent will sympathize with you and let you stay at home.
  • Understand that your lateness also affects others, such as your parents, who have to be at work on time. Realize that you are putting their job at risk and decide if skipping school is worth it.

Skip the bus

  • The fact that you miss the bus may be an accident, or it may be a plan. In any case, if you miss the bus, you may not get to school if your parents leave for work early in the morning or if they don't have time to give you a ride to school.
  • Arrive at the bus stop just as the bus leaves. You don't want your plan to skip the bus to look too obvious. However, you should walk home from the bus stop after you missed the bus long enough. If you're lucky, your parents won't have time to drive you to school by the time you get home.
  • If your parents are gone when you miss the bus, be sure to let them know after it's too late for them to come back for you. You should sound a little disappointed that you're skipping classes so that your parents don't suspect that you missed the bus on purpose. You might mention, for example, that you're sorry to miss out on a really cool experiment that was supposed to happen in chemistry, physics, or biology class.
  • If a parent is still at home after you missed the bus, they may offer to give you a ride to school on your way to work. Act out a scene about how you don't want your parent to be late for work. Tell him that you're prepared for the consequences of being late, but that you don't want your lateness to affect your parent's work. However, don't push too hard. It may be very easy for your parents to recognize a lie.

Lose a thing

You can't go to school without textbooks or a homework flash drive, right? Search everywhere. The more clutter your home usually has, the easier it will be for you to drag out your search time to be late for school.

  • The smaller the item, the easier it is to “lose” it. For example, it will be difficult for your mother to believe that you have lost your backpack or laptop.
  • The more important the subject, the more credible your pass will look if you don't find it. Losing glasses or contact lenses, for example, is more important than losing a notebook, as it will affect your ability to study throughout your work day (and depending on how bad your eyesight is, it can also affect how you will you bump into things).
  • If you drive to school by yourself, you may lose your keys. However, if it becomes a habit for you, the consequences can be bad (for example, your parents may not allow you to drive to school and force you to get there by bus).

Making documentary evidence

  1. Convince your parent or guardian to call the school. This is standard procedure. Your parents or guardian will have to call the school and explain that you will not be able to come.
    • For most schools, a call from a parent or guardian will suffice. In schools with stricter rules, however, you will have to resort to an official exemption, so you need to clarify the school rules. The essence of this practice is to reduce the number of unjustified absences and keep a record of illness.
  2. Call the school yourself if allowed. Most schools require the student's parent or guardian to call, regardless of age, but some schools allow the student to make the call himself.
  3. Get a doctor's note. If you have a long-term illness, your school may require you, your parents, guardians, or other family members to provide you with a doctor's note stating that you are indeed sick and need time to recover.
    • A certificate from a pediatrician or therapist will be required if your illness continues for more than a certain time. Exact times may vary by school, so you may want to check school policies to see at what point a doctor's note becomes required. This time usually varies from 3 to 10 days, 10 days is usually more common.

Typical school "excuses"

  • You can warn your parents in advance that your class will have an excursion tomorrow, a hike, a competition, an olympiad in which you do not want to participate or cannot, because you are sick, they did not take you, etc.
  • In the end, be late, let them not let you go to school, class, excursion, competition.
  • Let the teachers themselves "get sick", or "send" them to a teacher's competition. Helps!
  • On duty is a wonderful way out of a situation when you don’t know what to think of. Be indignant that everyone was forced to wash, scrub for the umpteenth time. Are you a cleaner?
  • In this age of technology, every student has a mobile phone. After the first lesson, tell the teacher that mom called and asked to urgently pick up her younger sister (brother) from kindergarten because she/he has a high temperature. Mom cannot leave work, dad is also very busy, and grandmother lives in another city. Therefore, today you will look after a sick child.
  • You hide your backpack at school, and when the lesson starts, you are loudly indignant and shout that the backpack with all the textbooks and notebooks is gone, and you guess where they could have hidden it. You leave to search and come to the end of the lesson. Don't forget to lightly soil your backpack to say you found it at the stadium or in the cleaners' back room. The main thing is to look very upset.
  • Come with a bandaged finger (or fingers) and say that you knocked them out while playing basketball (volleyball). Broken fingers are very swollen and sore. Thus, you can not write for a whole week, but this will not save you from verbal answers.
  • Sit all night at the computer. In the morning, your eyes will be red and swollen. Approach the teacher with a sad look and say that you feel very bad, your head hurts and your throat is tickling. Your appearance will be proof of that. If they send you to the first-aid post and it turns out that there is no temperature, then tell the nurse that your temperature rarely rises above 37, but you feel that you are getting sick.
  • You can also go to school and return in 15-20 minutes, telling your parents that the heating has broken in the school, the classrooms are cold, repairs are underway and everyone has been sent home.
  • Or say that the school is undergoing a medical examination of all students. The doctors said that today they only examine girls (or only boys), or only grades 1-4, and the rest were sent home.
  • You need to get up in the morning and calmly get ready for school, as if nothing had happened. And even leave home. Only at the same time you don’t need to come to school, and you don’t need to catch the eye of classmates (if they are not in the subject). They will hand over with all the giblets, they are like that! How to spend time - decide for yourself. We do not recommend sitting in the entrances, but doing something useful, such as visiting a movie theater and a cafe with a couple of friends, is always a pleasure. And do not try to arrange a party at home! Neighbors in the evening may inadvertently blurt out to parents that it was noisy at your place and then an extremely unpleasant conversation awaits you. The consequences can be grandiose, up to bringing you by the hand to the threshold of the school for six months, which will insanely amuse everyone around you, except for yourself, of course.
  • What walk can bring pleasure? The one that the parents are to blame. It does not always work and is not suitable for everyone. It requires that your parents leave for work before you get up for school and that you have a lock on your door that can only be opened and closed with a key. In the evening, you need to quietly say that you have lost the keys to the house. So that the parents seem to hear you, but it seems they don’t. In the morning, sleep peacefully until they leave and lock the door with their key. Then, after about 30 minutes, call your mother and in a panic declare that you are already late, and they closed you, and you warned you in the evening that you had lost your key! You need to sigh more, sigh, sigh. Usually parents are in no hurry to return home to unlock the student. And now, ahead of you is waiting for a whole day of rest at home legally! And you are not even almost to blame for what happened.
  • If not a single method rolls, then you really need to get sick. What is needed for this: we wash ourselves, do not dry ourselves, go out onto the balcony or to any cool place, stand for five to ten to fifteen minutes, depending on the temperature “overboard”, our own endurance and the degree of suspicion of our parents. Tonight, most likely, your throat will start to hurt, and tomorrow morning you will completely go down with the temperature.
    You can, of course, “get yourself screwed up” on the pavement or “maim yourself” in a physical education lesson, but lying around with a real leg fracture seems to be an uninteresting task.

My head hurts, my throat hurts, my stomach hurts, I had to go to the doctor to check my eyesight, to the dentist, to the pediatrician for an annual examination, but you never know what you can think of!))

ASKA I!

yes yes leg arm head belly throat all together!!

Well, try to "tuck your leg." True, there is a risk that they will be sent to the doctor.
A small make-up like “bruises under the eyes” and a pale foundation and to the teacher - “oh, I feel so bad, I’m just sick. Maybe I got poisoned by something? We bought smoked fish yesterday, maybe it was stale? “And a hand to your throat. The same can be done to parents - a groaning voice from the toilet, only a more real reason.

nadia tarapata

Ahaha, yes, everything is simple here, we take a thermometer and measure the temperature, and when your parents leave, you tap your hand with the blunt end several times and the temperature rises (but only with mercury) ahahah

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I remembered my childhood, I personally got up specially at 5 in the morning, and while the parents were sleeping, I took kefir from the refrigerator, drank it, and ate walnuts, everything that came across and ate everything, literally in a couple of hours I was swollen very hard, and in the toilet sat for about an hour, I didn’t go to school like that 🙂 advice don’t do it very often, because they’ll burn you all the time before school), one day my dad burned me, I realized something was wrong 🙂 he woke up early and saw that I went in I go to the kitchen and start eating anything, oh, I remember my ass was red, it hurt to sit down 🙂 in general, good luck fantasize,

Warnings

  1. Face the real reason. Ask yourself why you don't want to go to school. If you want to hide from the abuser or avoid another serious problem, you should better look for solutions to the problem, and not run away from it. This will make your life happier and healthier in the future.
  2. Don't skip school. Go through all the options your school provides for absenteeism. If you skip school without a reason or a call from your parents, you will be considered a truant and may have serious problems as a result.
  3. Find out what you are missing. In some subjects, it will be more difficult for you to catch up with the class than in others. Before you stay at home and skip school, you should think about how difficult it will be for you to catch up with class when you return, and also determine if skipping school is worth the effort. This is especially important if you are pretending to be sick or staying at home for a reason that is not very important.
  4. Consider the consequences. You can stay home for a real reason or pretend to be sick if you don't have a real reason to miss. In any case, skipping one or more school days can make your life more difficult later on.

The reader writes:

My son is 12 years old and recently it turns out that he regularly (several days in a row) skips school. In the morning I feed him breakfast, send him to school, go to work myself, and he walks for about two to three hours, then he comes home as if from class, every evening he does his homework, collects his portfolio, and in the morning instead of school we walk again . Began to find out - why? There is only one answer: I don't!
He has no problems with teachers, on the contrary, he is "the favorite of the public", with classmates too. He promised that this would not happen again, "swore and swore", I began to accompany him to school myself, absenteeism stopped. But yesterday I needed to go to work early and sent him alone - again I didn’t get it! In the evening, looking into my eyes, he claims that he was at school. And again promises, tears, "I won't do it again." In the morning I took him to school again, like a first grader by the hand. What can be done in such a situation? And there is no trust in the child, it’s hard for him and me, every evening I have to ask: was he at school or not, call classmates, check.

What to do?

It happens that the matter is different: for example, your child has a conflict with classmates or with a teacher. This situation is more complicated, sometimes the advice from M. Kravtsova's article "Outcast child in the classroom (advice to teachers and parents)" will help, and sometimes it's easier to change schools than to change the situation in a particular school.

The most radical step in this direction is to stop taking the child to school altogether and switch to home schooling. A reader writes:

If a child is not interested in developing and learning something new, this is a very, very serious "bell". And it rings that this desire (absolutely natural, inherent in every person from birth) has already been crushed in the child. By whom? A school that does not give joy, and parents who insist on such a school. Who needs this kind of education? A child who is collected from year to year to school, checked lessons, scolded because of grades, study is not needed initially. She needs only his parents. Everyone did not want to trudge to school in the morning, but they went and sat at the desk and pretended to study. You don't have to lie to yourself. Although - not right, studied! Learned hypocrisy. This is called "we were bent, now we are bending" ... the cycle of BDSM ... And to break this vicious circle? Weak?

Remark """: despite the categoricalness, there is a grain of truth in this opinion. See →

It is clear that the smartest parents begin to take care of all this much earlier, educate the child in real independence even before school and teach the child to study at school from the first grade. There is a wonderful rule: “In the first grade, you need to sit with the child and study together. Teach - all the rest of the years the child will study on his own, and you will be free. If you decide in the first grade that the child should show independence and lessons, it’s his business, business will end with the fact that already from the second grade you will do all the lessons with your child for all subsequent years. Teach your child to learn, and he will enjoy learning!

A happy reader writes:

My son is also 10 years old. Daughters 12. From the second grade they study by themselves and for themselves. They collect their own portfolios, deal with the teachers themselves if they forgot to bring something, correct the "2" for notebooks left at home, prepare the form for the next day, keep track of the presence of clean shirts in the closet, dress themselves, take a shower and brush their teeth in general with 5 years old, write down homework assignments themselves, learn them from classmates if they forgot to write them down, learn lessons themselves, receive and correct deuces themselves if they haven’t learned, etc. But at the same time, no one had a desire not to go to school. On the contrary, if you study FOR YOURSELF, then you have the MOTIVATION to study well - to gain knowledge, go to college to get the profession you want, etc. Moreover, even if for this you have to make some conscious sacrifices, for example, to learn mathematics or history that you don’t like.

Gleb's letter

Hello, my name is Gleb, I am 13 years old. I'm already exhausted from school, I'm very tired. On the one hand, I understand that it is necessary to study. History (a subject that I deeply hate, by the way), for example, is needed to understand the mistakes of states and make the right decisions. And so with everything. This is all, as I am told, can be useful to me in life. But this is tantamount to the fact that I collect bottles on the street, they say, extra money will not hurt, but you can do without it. In short, I have a lot of deep thoughts on this topic. But I'll be brief. Knowledge I appreciate and love. BUT! At school they force me to study, I'm bored, a lot of time is wasted, they don't take into account the characteristics of children, they don't try to understand and hear them, the school develops one-sidedly. Mountains of material, stress, violence, etc. The list can be continued indefinitely. I myself read a lot, do karate, in general, a normal person. But I can't make a decision about studying... Many subjects are not given to me and they are very boring. What to do?

Reply to Gleb

Ch. Elena, psychologist, graduate

Hello Gleb!

Judging by the rather literate letter, it is clear that you are a person who reads and thinks. So I want to give you really good advice.

But! I request you to take my advice with respect. With respect - it means to read, choosing, there is nothing to argue with, but something to agree with. Perhaps set aside for an hour or a day and read it again. And most importantly, put it into practice.

This is the most important thing in life - to act. You see the shortcomings of school education and you can vividly and figuratively complain about them. I see too. Many see. Many complain. But respect is given to those who do something to change the situation. They are winners in life. I call such people Creators.

Now here's a tip.

I suggest you experiment. Psychological experiment on yourself. There is a whole series of experiments invented by psychologists for schoolchildren who are bored at school. They are described in L. Soloveichik's book "". I’ll say right away: if you read it, good. The faster you can move from reading to work, to actions, to experiments.

If you haven't read it, I envy you a little. Interesting, vividly and vividly written, this book contains a number of tasks for you. The first one to start with is to love history and (if necessary) correct your grades in that subject. To a high, truly ambitious, practically challenge: to raise the level of education and culture of your class, your friends.

I think a challenge is what you need. The life of teenagers today in our country is safe and uncomplicated. You are treated like children and protected from difficulties. But without difficulties there will be no victories - you know this well thanks to karate classes. To know yourself, what you are, what you can be, is possible only in real, difficult work, in action.

And the last thing - if you report the results of the experiment, it will be great.

Can. I've known this for 12 years for sure. During this time, two of my children managed to get certificates while sitting at home (since it was decided that this might be useful to them in life), and the third child, like them, does not go to school, but has already passed exams for primary school and is not going to stop there.

To be honest, now I no longer think that children need to take exams for every class. I just don't stop them from choosing the “replacement” school they can think of. (Although, of course, I share my thoughts on this with them.)

But back to the past. Until 1992, it was really believed that every child was obliged to go to school every day, and all parents were obliged to “send” their children there when they reached the age of 7.

And if it turned out that someone did not do this, they could send employees of some special organization to him (it seems that the name contained the words “child protection”, but I don’t understand this, so I could be wrong).

In order for a child to have the RIGHT not to go to school, they must first obtain a medical certificate stating that they "cannot attend school for health reasons." That's why everyone asked me what's wrong with my children!

By the way, much later I found out that in those days some parents (who thought of the idea of ​​not “taking” their children to school before me) simply BUYed such certificates from doctors they knew.

But in the summer of 1992, Yeltsin issued a historic decree declaring that from now on, ANY CHILD (regardless of his state of health) has the right to study at home!!!

Moreover, it even said that the school should PAY extra to the parents of such children for the fact that they implement the money allocated by the state for compulsory secondary education not with the help of teachers and not in the school premises, but on their own and at home!

In September of the same year, I came to the director of the school to write another statement that this year my child will study at home. She gave me the text of this decree to read. (I didn’t think of writing down its name, number and date then, but now, 11 years later, I don’t remember anymore. If you are interested, look for information on the Internet. If you find it, share it.

After that I was told: “We won't pay you for your child not attending our school. It's too hard to get the funds for that. But on the other hand (!) And we won’t take money from you for the fact that our teachers take exams from your child.”

It suited me perfectly to take money for the release of my child from the shackles of school, it would not have occurred to me. So we parted, pleased with each other and with the change in our legislation.

True, after a while I took my children's documents from the school where they took exams for free, and since then they have taken exams in a different place and for money - but that's a completely different story (about a paid external study, which is organized easier and more conveniently than free, at least that was the case in the 90s).

And last year I read an even more interesting document, again, I don’t remember either the name or the date of publication, it was shown to me at the school where I came to negotiate an external study for my third child. (Imagine the situation: I come to the head teacher and say that I want to enroll the child in school. In the first grade. The head teacher writes down the name of the child and asks for the date of birth. It turns out that the child is 10 years old. And now the most pleasant thing. The head teacher reacts to this QUIETLY!! !) They ask me for which class he wants to take exams. I explain that we don't have any graduation certificates for any classes, so I guess you have to start from the very first one!

And in response, they show me an official document about the external study, in which it is written in black and white that ANY person has the right to come to ANY public educational institution at ANY age and ask that they take exams for ANY high school class (without asking for any documents about completion of the previous classes!!!). And the administration of this school is OBLIGED to create a commission and take all the necessary exams from him!!!

That is, you can come to any neighboring school, say, at the age of 17 (or earlier, or later, as you like; together with my daughter, for example, two bearded uncles received certificates, well, it was impatient for them to suddenly receive certificates) and immediately pass exams for 11 th class. And get the very certificate that everyone seems to be such a necessary subject.

But this is a theory. Practice, alas, is more difficult ;-(. Once I (more out of curiosity than out of need) went to the school closest to my house and asked for an audience with the director. I told her that my children had long and irrevocably stopped going to school, and in this moment I am looking for a place where I can quickly and inexpensively pass my 7th grade exams.

The director (a pleasant young woman with quite progressive views) was very interested in talking to me, and I willingly told her about my ideas, but at the end of the conversation she advised me to look for some other school.

They really were OBLIGED by law to accept my application for admission of my child to school and would indeed allow him to be "homeschooled". There would be no problem with this. But they explained to me that the conservative elderly teachers who make up the “decisive majority” in this school (at the “pedagogical councils” where contentious issues are resolved) would not agree to MY conditions of “home teaching” so that the child would simply approach each of the teachers once and immediately passed the year course. (It should be noted that I have encountered this problem more than once: where exams for external students are taken by REGULAR teachers, they insistently say that the child CANNOT pass the entire program in one visit !!!

He MUST “work the RIGHT number of HOURS”! Those. they are absolutely not interested in the real knowledge of the child; they are only concerned about the TIME spent on study. And they do not see the absurdity of this idea at all)

They will require the child to take all tests at the end of each term (because they can't put a "dash" instead of a quarter grade in the class book if the child is on the class list).

In addition, they will require that the child has a medical certificate and has made all vaccinations (and by that time we were not “counted” at all in any clinic, and from the words “ medical certificate” I started to feel dizzy), otherwise he would “infect” other children. (Yeah, it will infect with health and love of freedom.)

And, of course, the child will be required to participate in the “life of the class”: wash the walls and windows on Saturdays, collect papers on the school grounds, etc.

It is clear that such prospects simply made me laugh. Obviously, I refused. But the director, nevertheless, did exactly what I needed for me! (Just because she liked our conversation.) Namely, I had to take textbooks for grade 7 from the library so as not to buy them in the store. And she immediately called the librarian and ordered to give me (free of charge, on receipt) all the necessary textbooks before the end of the school year!

So my daughter read these textbooks and calmly (without vaccinations and “participation in the life of the class”) passed all the exams in another place, after which we took the textbooks back.

But I digress. Let's go back to last year, when I brought a 10-year-old into "first grade". The head teacher offered him tests for the first class program, it turned out that he knew everything. The second class knows almost everything. Third grade doesn't know much. She made a study program for him, and after a while he successfully passed the exams for the 4th grade, i.e. “graduated from elementary school.”

And if you wish! I could now come to any school and study there further along with my peers.

It's just that he doesn't have that desire. Vice versa. To him, such a proposal seems crazy. He does not understand WHY a normal person should go to school.

Ksenia Podorova

Skipping school can be quite difficult. If you're going to pretend to be sick, then a day off from school will require you to prepare and considerable acting skills. Even if you miss classes for a good reason, missed assignments will accumulate. But there are days when there is absolutely no energy to go to school! This is where our tips on how to convince your parents to leave you at home – for real or imagined reasons – come in handy.

Steps

Part 1

pretending

    Plan ahead. It's more likely that your parents will believe you when you get up in the morning and say you're not well if you set the stage the previous evening.

    • The sooner you start pretending to be sick, the more time you will have to show the deterioration of your condition. Demonstrate a little fatigue the night before. For example, instead of walking down the street after school, stay at home and lie in your room.
    • Be sluggish in front of your parents. They should give the impression that you are tired and have no strength. In the evening, do not stick to your usual routine. If you watch TV, lie down and show no interest in anything. You should also go to bed earlier and make sure your parents notice.
    • Add fire to the idea - eat very little at dinner or make an attempt to eat something, but grab your stomach, as if you were in sharp pain. Say you're not well. Of course skip dessert. You can also ask your parents to give you hot tea to soothe your stomach.
    • Tell your parents that a classmate of yours threw up at school or that a friend missed school. Make sure it's a friend your parents don't know. This information will add fuel to the fire.
  1. Show symptoms. Externally visible symptoms, such as a rash, are difficult to portray convincingly, so in most cases, you should show external signs of internal pain.

    Be unobtrusive but persuasive. One of the biggest mistakes is overplaying. If you act out your imaginary illness too dramatically, your parents may catch the fake.

    • It is best to act out a simple ailment instead of pretending that you have some kind of illness for which proof is needed. Trying to make a vomit sound can be quite risky, as your parents may catch you in a lie. Similarly, if you want to play high temperature and dip the thermometer into something hot, it might backfire on you.
    • Don't protest too much when your parents tell you not to go to school. You might think that acting out worrying about missing class might be more convincing, and that staying home too much might arouse suspicion. But don't forget that if you really felt as bad as you're pretending, your parents wouldn't have to convince you to stay home. Hesitate before you agree, but don't act like you're too worried about skipping school, especially if that concern doesn't fit your role.
  2. Don't recover too quickly. Never forget that your parents may take you to school later if they realize you've recovered or that you've been faking it. If you want to skip school by feigning illness, you should keep that imaginary illness going throughout the school day.

    • You should recover gradually throughout the day. Rest and be relaxed. By lunchtime, you may mention that you are starting to get better, but you are not yet well. By late evening, your recovery should be almost complete.
  3. Don't pretend to be sick too often. If you pretend to be ill too often, your parents may not believe you when you actually get sick and need to stay at home.

    Part 2

    We don't pretend
    1. Tell your parents if you are sick. This is the most common reason students miss school. If you are really unwell or think you are getting sick, tell your parents and ask to be left at home.

      Stay at home if you are experiencing some kind of shock. For example, if you recently lost a family member, friend, or other person you were close to, your grief is a good reason to stay home and not go to school. Be honest with your parents about how much the loss has affected you.

      • If the tragedy befell you but not your parents, you may think that it will be difficult for them to understand you. Grief is a universal feeling and most people can put themselves in your shoes and give you time to process the loss.
      • However, you should understand that the period of sadness must end someday. Intense sadness can last for quite a long time, and it can be difficult for you to extricate yourself from this situation on your own. If you feel that after a few days to a week you are still unable to go to school, you should talk to a psychologist and ask him to help you through your grief.
    2. Be honest if you are being bullied at school. If you are the victim of a bully or a group of bullies at school, talk to your parents or other loved ones about it. Explain how difficult your school life has become as a result of the bullying and ask that you be allowed to stay away from school for a day or two until things settle down.

      Ask to skip school. Tell Mom and Dad that you want to spend a special day with them and let them take the day off from work. This plan can work especially if you're graduating high school soon and going to a higher education institution in another city, or if it's going to be an easy day at work for you and your parents (for example, you don't have any tests and your parents don't have urgent assignments at work). ).

      Get permission for a mental health day. It is important to talk to parents about anxiety and stress. Adults often forget how difficult school life can be, when in fact, the stress level during study is quite high. If you're going through the usual school-related stress, it might be more beneficial for you to deal with it and get through it all. If stress, anxiety, and depression become more of a problem, tell a parent or counselor about it and ask for a day without school.

      • If you suspect that you may be developing a serious mental health problem, such as depression or an anxiety disorder, ask your parents to make an appointment with your doctor. This can signal the seriousness of your problem to your parents, and if you do have some kind of disorder, then going to the doctor will help you control your condition.
    3. Stay at home if weather or nature conditions require it. In the event of a severe storm, flood, or other circumstances that make commuting to school dangerous, your school may close for a period of time. If the weather conditions are dangerous, but the school does not close for some reason, it is better for you to stay at home early.

      • Usually parents or educators will help you figure out how bad the weather is for staying home, so you may not have to convince anyone of anything. If your parents stay at home because of the weather, they will be more willing to leave you at home as well.
    4. Consider other special circumstances as well. A family vacation or a visit from a distant relative can be a reason not to go to school, but don't skip school too often for these reasons. Compare what you might miss if you go to school versus what you might miss if you stay home, and talk to your parents about whether you should skip school.

      • Please note that the school usually does not consider such reasons to be valid. If your school is one of these, you should tell your parents so that they can tell the school that you will be absent, without giving a reason.
      • Usually, if you know in advance that you will be absent from school, your parent or guardian should write a note that you can bring a few days in advance. This will give teachers time to prepare assignments for you.

    Part 3

    We're stalling for time
    1. Late on purpose. Incorporate some delays into your morning routine, finish your morning chores a few minutes late so you won't be able to get to school on time.

      • Dress very slowly. Soak up breakfast so you have to change. Get dressed again…very slowly.
      • Pretend you can't find something you need, like one shoe or a gym uniform. Find it eventually, but let it take you 5-10 minutes.
      • Complain loudly about having a bad day; shed a tear if necessary. If you're lucky, your parent will sympathize with you and let you stay at home.
      • Understand that your lateness also affects others, such as your parents, who have to be at work on time. Realize that you are putting their job at risk and decide if skipping school is worth it.
    2. Skip the bus. The fact that you miss the bus may be an accident, or it may be a plan. In any case, if you miss the bus, you may not get to school if your parents leave for work early in the morning or if they don't have time to give you a ride to school.

      Lose an item. You can't go to school without textbooks or a homework flash drive, right? Search everywhere. The more clutter your home usually has, the easier it will be for you to drag out your search time to be late for school.

      • The smaller the item, the easier it is to “lose” it. For example, it will be difficult for your mother to believe that you have lost your backpack or laptop.
      • The more important the subject, the more credible your pass will look if you don't find it. Losing glasses or contact lenses, for example, is more important than losing a notebook, as it will affect your ability to study throughout your work day (and depending on how bad your eyesight is, it can also affect how you will you bump into things).
      • If you drive to school by yourself, you may lose your keys. However, if this becomes a habit, the consequences can be bad (for example, your parents may not allow you to drive to school and force you to take the bus).

    Call the school yourself if allowed. Most schools require the student's parent or guardian to call, regardless of age, but some schools allow the student to make the call himself.

  4. Get a doctor's note. If you have a long-term illness, your school may require you, your parents, guardians, or other family members to provide you with a doctor's note stating that you are indeed sick and need time to recover.

    • A certificate from a pediatrician or therapist will be required if your illness continues for more than a certain time. Exact times may vary by school, so you may want to check school policies to see at what point a doctor's note becomes required. This time usually varies from 3 to 10 days, 10 days is usually more common.

Warnings

  • Face the real reason. Ask yourself why you don't want to go to school. If you want to hide from the abuser or avoid another serious problem, you should better look for solutions to the problem, and not run away from it. This will make your life happier and healthier in the future.
  • Don't skip school. Go through all the options your school provides for absenteeism. If you skip school without a reason or a call from your parents, you will be considered a truant and may have serious problems as a result.
  • Find out what you are missing. In some subjects, it will be more difficult for you to catch up with the class than in others. Before you stay at home and skip school, you should think about how difficult it will be for you to catch up with class when you return, and also determine if skipping school is worth the effort. This is especially important if you are pretending to be sick or staying at home for a reason that is not very important.
  • Consider the consequences. You can stay home for a real reason or pretend to be sick if you don't have a real reason to miss. In any case, skipping one or more school days can make your life more difficult later on.

The most honest way is to just tell your mom: “I really don’t want to go to school, can I not go?”. Surprisingly, this method sometimes works. Mom loves her child and does not want him to suffer. As an adult, she understands that a person sometimes needs to be given a "bonus", so it is possible that she will meet you halfway. Let's make a reservation: this method works extremely rarely, so you need to test it no more than once a month.

A good interpretation of the previous option: agree in advance with your mother about a “bonus” day off. Ask yourself one extra day off a month, it is unlikely that a mother will refuse such a trifle to her child. The disadvantage of this method: parents are well aware that they will be able to blackmail you with this in the future, demanding obedience. Plus: you will know in advance that on such and such a day you can not go to school without “excuses”.

Not so fair ways

A good, effective way without compromising health: a room with keys. Take your keys and put them in your mom's bag. In the morning, mom leaves for work, and after 10 minutes you call her on the phone and start shouting: “Where are my keys? Why did you take my keys?" Mom digs through her purse and finds the keys, then calls you.

Further events can develop in two versions. If mom is a busy person, she will tell you to find spare keys. Of course, you won’t find them and you will calmly go to bed. In the event that mom's work schedule allows her to return, she will return and bring you the keys. So you can skip one or two, which is also good.

Totally dishonest ways.

A completely dishonest way is a classic simulation of the disease. All methods are good here: from the banal “headache” to a full-scale simulation of pneumonia with fever and redness. It is better to limit ourselves to "small simulation", since more complex methods involve the ingestion of various substances and drugs. Of course, if you want to go to the hospital instead of school and experience unforgettable moments during gastric lavage (from all sides), then you can swallow all sorts of filth. And we do not recommend doing this.

The temperature can be raised and quite harmless methods. For example, wrap a thermometer in the corner of a duvet cover or sheet and start blowing intensively there. The temperature inside the tissue will rise, and the thermometer will show desired mark. After that, you can languidly lean back on the bed, put the thermometer under your arm and call your mother. One caveat: if the mother guesses that she is being deceived, trust will disappear forever, and it will be very difficult to establish contact with her in the future.

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