Does missing a few days off school hurt?

Lopéz said:
Surely missing a "day off school" means you are not missing any school at all?
If I had a day off school then I had (or took) a day off school, I didn't miss a day off school, or that would mean I never had that day off and therefore by default must have attended.

Unless of course what you actually meant was "Does missing a few days of school hurt?" in which case the answer is (in your case) evidently "Yes it does"
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You, Sir, deserve a slap for spotting that mistake :D
 
It depends what you do with your day off. Stepping on a rusty nail will hurt, as will having your back door blown in (for the first time). Vegging and watching TV of course will be rather painless.
 
Definitely hurts, I don't think independent learning comes close to having a teacher right in front of you. When you don't understand something in a textbook and can't go anywhere to ask for help, it becomes a real pita.
 
rapid64k said:
I 100% agree i really cant see how it would affect you.
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"I"

"can't"

You did choose the correct spelling of "affect" though, so not all hope is lost.

Maybe they were covering spelling on the days you missed, or was it attention to detail?
 
Think it sorta depends on the person,

When I was at school if I missed a day I would come in and not have a clue for a few days till I got caught up.

Same goes for uni, I had to fly out to preston for a training course with my work and when i got back I did not have a notion as the lecturer started a new topic and I was mindfu*ked to say the least when I got back...
 
Lopéz said:
"I"

"can't"

You did choose the correct spelling of "affect" though, so not all hope is lost.

Maybe they were covering spelling on the days you missed, or was it attention to detail?
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How long does it take to type these posts out to make sure that you don't make a mistake?
By the way, there is a mistake in your user-name. We don't use "é" in this country.
 
chaosdestro0 said:
How long does it take to type these posts out to make sure that you don't make a mistake?
By the way, there is a mistake in your user-name. We don't use "é" in this country.
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Not very, I do a lot of typing at work and don't use a spell checker. Over the years you just get used to paying attention to what you are typing. Of course errors slip in every now and then but they're usually typographical mistakes (physically hitting the wrong key) rather than genuine spelling or grammatical errors. I correct as I go which pretty much negates the need to proof-read (other than than to make sure the whole post is generally understandable and I've not left out a huge chunk of a sentence)

With regards to usernames, we don't use the word "chaosdestro0" in this country either. Touché. Ooh hang on a minute.... see what I did there? ;)
 
Lopéz said:
Not very, I do a lot of typing at work and don't use a spell checker. Over the years you just get used to paying attention to what you are typing. Of course errors slip in every now and then but they're usually typographical mistakes (physically hitting the wrong key) rather than genuine spelling or grammatical errors. I correct as I go which pretty much negates the need to proof-read (other than than to make sure the whole post is generally understandable and I've not left out a huge chunk of a sentence)

With regards to usernames, we don't use the word "chaosdestro0" in this country either. Touché. Ooh hang on a minute.... see what I did there? ;)
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All these words are from France which I fail to acknowledge as a valid country. :D
Yes I do see what you did there, I think we should publicly execute anyone who uses words with that funny e thing in.
 
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chaosdestro0 said:
Definitely hurts, I don't think independent learning comes close to having a teacher right in front of you. When you don't understand something in a textbook and can't go anywhere to ask for help, it becomes a real pita.
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What a load of ****, life isn't like this and i don't see how it helps young people to guard them so.

Teaching is at a low point at the moment and most of the experienced teachers (Ie the ones who teach correctly, not the career teachers which utterly ruin the system) are nearing their retirement age (albeit the new age has offset it somewhat), let alone all the teaching seems to revolve around teaching for tests...this is a fundamental error.

There is simply far too many problems to solve, especially when money is tight, its understandable...especially during the false decade of New Labour rule.

Hopefully government can come to its senses.
 
StriderX said:
What a load of ****, life isn't like this and i don't see how it helps young people to guard them so.

Teaching is at a low point at the moment and most of the experienced teachers (Ie the ones who teach correctly, not the career teachers which utterly ruin the system) are nearing their retirement age (albeit the new age has offset it somewhat), let alone all the teaching seems to revolve around teaching for tests...this is a fundamental error.

There is simply far too many problems to solve, especially when money is tight, its understandable...especially during the false decade of New Labour rule.

Hopefully government can come to its senses.
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I acknowledge your point but what does that have to do with the price of eggs?
The system is pretty flawed, however we are talking about someone in this system and the best advice to the I can give for the OP is to go to school.
Personally I find it 10x harder to learn a new concept out of a textbook than having a teacher explain it to me, the only thing that works for me is having some fancy video that shows someone applying the concept to a question.
 
chaosdestro0 said:
I acknowledge your point but what does that have to do with the price of eggs?
The system is pretty flawed, however we are talking about someone in this system and the best advice to the I can give for the OP is to go to school.
Personally I find it 10x harder to learn a new concept out of a textbook than having a teacher explain it to me, the only thing that works for me is having some fancy video that shows someone applying the concept to a question.
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Well, of course he should probably not take days off unless its important, at the very the least the ordered environment is useful.
 
It depends what year really. I missed a load of year 9 due to an illness (nearly half of it IIRC). It did me no harm as year 9 is a complete waste of a year.

However in something like A-Level Maths if you were to miss a couple of days you could come back and find they've introduced Differentiation and are moving on already. You'd then be sat there going DERP.





Lopéz :D
 
I would defiantly say so. You should really try and take less time off, because it will affect your grades. Also you don’t want to get your parents into trouble.
 
Doubt it - my parents used to give me treats like let me go to NY for a few days during term time as long as I was doing well.

Good grades = allowed skiving & holidayyyys :D

Didn't do me any harm
 
Hyburnate said:
Yes just by 90% Attendance you can drop from a C to a E.
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Well i had something like just above 86% in Year 11 and i apparently got the most GCSE 'points' in the year. Go figure.

If you're going to miss a day recovering from illness then it's probably better than going but being ill and unable to concentrate for a week, and making other people ill in the process.

Although i'm having trouble with motivating myself to get out of bed for sixth form... already. Urgh, this is going to be a fun two years :(
 
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