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>Ah yes, Senior skip day! > >Officially speaking it wasn't sanctioned at my school >either. And there were boys who got in trouble for it >every year. Typically, that was the result of some >other activities involved with cutting classes. > >Besides, a lot of senior misbehavior was overlooked. >It was considered a privilege of having lived on >campus for seven years at that point. > >Some friends and I, we went to see a movie, and to >play music at a local club, where the owner knew us. >This was significant because cutting classes might be >overlooked, but leaving campus without an exeat... not >so much. > >But getting an exeat for the day was full of problems >in it's own right. First of all, if your request was >turned down, then you've essentially told the school >what your plans are. And then there's the pesky detail >of if they approve your exeat, then are you truly >skipping? > >That may sound weird but that was a detail that some >of us actually cared about. > >Now things worked a little differently in the senior >building (we called it "the old school") than other >stories about the school that I've told you in this >forum. To begin with, we had our own rooms. But more >importantly, we had our own exit. > >But access to the students parking... not so much! > >We'd arranged a ride for the day, all we had to do was >walk 100 yards up the sidewalk by the outer wall >separating the sports field from the road. > >Of course, there is the added benefit to doing it that >way, our cars are still in students parking, so >security assumed that we are on campus. > >One boy in our group, he had a teacher who was >particularly out to get him in trouble for his little >adventure with us. So about mid day, he came up with >an excuse to raise suspicions that that boy was off >campus. > >Disciplinary actions for seniors, they were decided by >the Principal himself. That's another part of the >reason why we got away with a lot of what we did. >Principal just didn't really have time for all of >that. > >For whatever reason, no one seemed to realize that I >was with the group that day. I never found out how >they got a partial list of boys that were in our group >specifically. We weren't the only ones who left campus >that day. > >Whatever was going on there, I never ended up getting >called to the principal. My Half-Brother, (only six >months difference from me, and same grade) he was on >the list. > >He admitted that he left campus that day, but denied >that he left with the group, and told Stone that he'd >gone to the cemetery, instead. > >(Brother's best friend died a few years before this. >What's worse is that his best friend pretty much died >in front of him. Brother had gone home with his friend >that weekend, they were playing basketball and his >friend collapsed right there in the middle of the >game. By the time the boy got to the hospital he had >passed.) > >Stone simply told brother to go back to his room, and >stay there the rest of the day. That was Stone's way >of saying that Brother was to be overlooked. > >One obvious detail that it appears that Stone missed, >was the fact that his friend was actually buried >across the border in Connecticut. Stone was at the >funeral, and should have known that. Without access to >his car, there was no way Brother could have gone to >visit his friend for Senior Skip day. > >Then the story gets even far less charming when you >find out that brother didn't actually go to the, music >club with us after the movie. He went home with the >economics teacher's daughter who was participating in >Senior Skip day from the Girl's school. > >I think I can leave it to your own imagination what >they did when they got back to her place, which was >only about 10 minutes from our school. That's a half >hour walk, and she had the keys to her father's >apartment. > >(teachers had apartments, at the edge of campus. The >front facing to the main road and theg back door, >right to the scool itself.) > >Once inside the walls, she just had to make her way >across the pond to the girl's school, and Brother just >had to avoid being seen until... probably any point in >the over walk, or perhaps even just in the East garden >would work. > >The original boy, who a different teacher was trying >to get busted. I actually didn't hear at the end of >that story. Or rather I heard conflicting rumors. >(Which was typical in our school) > >Either he did get the horse stick, which would have >been by the Principal himself, and would have been >done in private. Or the teacher was so embarrassed by >acting on a petty conflict with a student, that he >took the last month of the year off. > >It is true that I didn't see that teacher again until >graduation.

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