Mitching in primary/secondary school

Ruu_Old

Go on then, how many of ye done it? Even as much a model pupil as I was, I skipped off one woodwork class to play handball.:) Luckily was never found out and my record remained intact.
A guard brought back 2 chaps who had been caught playing pool in the pub one day and for a few weeks, going up town for lunch was banned!

Dudess

*Sigh* I wasn't very good at it - I did it about three times - twice for just individual classes, once for a bunch of classes between break and lunch. Got caught ALL THREE TIMES! God, the terror we felt when we got caught! We were easily scared... I suppose we were led to believe that it was SO serious! I really think we could have done far worse!

Lil' Smiler

I only brought myself to do it in 6th year... it was getting to the end of the year and i just wanted the time to relax between school and going home and studying

was great fun, was never ever caught!!

Pyr0

In 6th year now myself, I've done it a few times over the years ! No big deal really, as long as it isn't frequent !

Lil' Smiler

i think 6th year is understandable, you just want it to all be over!!

still can't figure out how no one made anything out of the fact that i skipped my last class on a friday for nearly 2 months at the end..hehe!!

mickrourke

Ruu wrote: »

Go on then, how many of ye done it? Even as much a model pupil as I was, I skipped off one woodwork class to play handball.:) Luckily was never found out and my record remained intact.
A guard brought back 2 chaps who had been caught playing pool in the pub one day and for a few weeks, going up town for lunch was banned!

Jaysus, there's always some gob****es that ruin it for everyone! Bet you they had I.Q's in single digits too! Imagine, "right, I'm meant to be at school, so where will i go that i won't get noticed that i should be in school? Oh I know, I will go into a pub in the middle of town, and even though i am underage, wearing a school uniform, and it is the middle of the day."

Unrelated: Was there also fights up the town, behind the chipper or something after school? Now they were class - 2 lads being pushed together to fight for some stupid reason like they were the 2 smallest in the class, (which actually was me) or something.

stovelid

When we mitched from secondary school in nice weather, we often hid in a quarry up in the Tallaght hills so we wouldn't get spotted by parents or teachers. Of course, by early afternoon, we'd be looking at our watches and wondering what everybody was doing in school.

For years after I left school, I could still forge my mum's signature perfectly.

keefg

Yep, loads of times (only in UK it was called skiving or bunking off). We lived close to LHR so we used to bunk school & get the bus to Terminal 1 or 3, can't remember why but T2 was too boring for us at the time.

These were the days before Al Qaeda and the like so we could wander pretty much anywhere we wanted and watch planes all day, no questions asked by those pesky adults.

Dudess

Going "on the hop" is what we called it down in Cork in the early to mid-nineties.

Archeron

Lil' Smiler wrote: »

i think 6th year is understandable, you just want it to all be over!!

still can't figure out how no one made anything out of the fact that i skipped my last class on a friday for nearly 2 months at the end..hehe!!

Ha! I missed every Monday afternoon for an entire year! It was double french followed by maths, so that explains the lack of attendance.
Oh, and the truant officers of primary school were like educational terminators. They'd strut around like evil overlords and God help you if you were caught by one. (Hi Mrs Bleech!!)

Firetrap

No I never did. If I didn't want to go to school, usually due to lack of homework being done, I'd convince my mother that I was sick. The trick was to convince myself that I was sick first and once that was sorted, tricking my mum was the easy bit.

admiralofthefleet

i did it in 6th class and up to 5th year in secondary school, we used to go to the beach and pretend to be be doing work on the sea and stuff if we were caught. i remember one time around 1996 i mitched off p.e (it was a double period last thing on friday) and saw the principals car coming up behind me so i legged it into a mates house and pretended i was getting his p.e gear off his mother when i got caught by the principal. the best days of my life

orestes

Used to skip PE every week for years. I couldn't do PE due to a weak leg from breaking it as a kid so I was supposed to spend it studying in the library. Every week I'd bugger off instead and take a long lunch and grab the bus to town for a few hours. Until I was sat on the bus one time and my mother rang me on my way back to school after my extended lunch and proceeded to tell me she knew I was on the mitch, knew I had gotten the bus to town, knew where I had gotten lunch, knew I was on my way back and even told me what number bus I was on!

She didn't mention it when I got home, and we never spoke about it, but I never even thought about skipping classes again!

dlofnep

We called it "on the duck".

My teacher in six standard used to call me Duck Rogers.. Said I had fridayitis cos I used to always duck off on a friday.