When you were sick; did you still come to school or would you take a day off?

Question

I remember in grammar school when I would reach up to 101 degrees and the teacher would send me to the nurse and my mom would pick me up. Then I had to take liquid medicine (BLEH) and would throw up. When I feel like crap, I still go. Damn me and my perfect attendance ha ha

Answer 1

That was me. I remember one morning back in high school where I was taking notes and all of the sudden I had this crippling headache that felt like you got shot in the head 400 times. I didn't go to the nurse because I was determined to go through the school day w/o having to go home and miss the work. This headache got worse and worse as the week went on where it got to the point where I had to walk very slowly otherwise I would get dizzy from walking too fast. But I still didn't go home. Friday rolls around and the headache is now at the worst stage. I go to school like normally and was headed up the steps to the second floor and fell backwards down the stairs and suffered a concussion. Now when I'm sick I take the freakin' day off.

Answer 2

In 10th grade, I (along with a dozon or so family members) got food poisoning from turkey at thanksgiving. I was out of school for a couple days from that. From then until graduation, I was never absent again. Now I'm in my third year of college and I have skipped 2 or 3 days outright, but have cut class many times.

Answer 3

Lol, sometimes I wake up and i'm just like reeeally not in the mood for school so I go downstairs, put on a sad face and tell my daddy i'm not feeling well. he lets me stay home and makes me soup and stuff. So i stay in bed watching maury all morning then when school is over I go to my boyfriends house!! :]]]] Also, when im at the nurse i call my daddy and tell him i have cramps and he picks me up from school. so yes, i do take mannny days off!

Answer 4

I'd stay home.

In Middle and High school I stayed home as much as possible.

In my senior year, the principal pulled me aside one day and told me that if I missed another day I would not graduate. I laughed at him (I was valedictorian.) Of course, I didn't take any chances, I was involved in a lot of school clubs, so I organized field trips and entered competitions so I ended up missing about half of the remaining month of school.

Answer 5

Because I work with kids(I do life skills training and respite for parents that have kids with developmental disabilities and health issues), I get to take time off when I'm sick (not a cold though :( But it sucks when pay day comes around! The one child I work with has cystic fibrosis, and I had a respiratory infection, and his mother got mad that I took the day off. It made me sick that she was so worried about having time to herself that she didn't care about putting her son's health in jeopardy : (

Answer 6

I had to be really sick before I could miss a day of school which wasnt very often that I'd miss-I did'nt like school-and I did'nt like being sick either!! Jill R

Answer 7

Well my parents would send me school if there was a hailstorm goin on outside! So when i stayed home it was for something contagious and something that reallyyyyy had me feelin bad like a high fever or pink-eye!

Answer 8

haha...I was a good student...I'd go no matter what. I remember one time I threw up and my dad booked off work to stay home with me and then I decided to still go to school and he was like "Well what the heck am I supposed to do now!?"...oops =S...then of course I would come home and throw up again. yeah...

Answer 9

Lets just say i have missed 5 or so consecutive weeks of school before because of sickness. Summer classes suck

Answer 10

I looked for any excuse to miss school. Work is a little different though, I have to go to work when I am sick.