Student gets back at classmate by adding too many absences on teacher's attendance sheet, delaying his graduation by a full year: 'That is diabolical'

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    "He had to wait to retake [the exam] the following school year and graduate with that year's seniors"
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    Prevented high school bolly from graduating on time At my high school each class would take attendance individually, and if you missed 10 or more days in a semester you were required to pass a difficult comprehensive exam for that class.
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    I would be one of the first students to get to my 3rd period class, and my teacher would often leave for a bathroom break
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    before class started. He always left the attendance log open on his desk so I retroactively marked my bally as absent for 10 days
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    for the semester. The last week of class I heard the teacher telling him he had to take the exam for being absent too many times. My
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    bOly insisted he had not missed that many days, but had no way to prove he didn't skip class.
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    I find out later he failed the comprehensive exam, and the class was required to graduate. On top of that the class was not offered in summer school, so he had to wait to retake it the following school year and graduate with that year's seniors.
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    RageBash 7 hr. ago That is diabolical
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    KangarooGuard2024 ⚫ 4 hr. ago People graduating on time is dependent on a teachers paper attendance sheet she leaves out?
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    whysongj⚫ 4 hr. ago In my days it was a sheet of paper with checkmark. It was always left out in the open on the teacher's desk and now I'm seeing how it would have been easy to pull something like that. The only thing is my school was pretty small
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    so the teacher would actually notice if someone was missing, and they could also just check the attendance for other classes on the same day with their colleagues, and would see that the student was actually present that day.
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    Dry_Sandwich_860 6 hr. ago (Chef's kiss)
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    Flossy40 2 hr. ago My Dad taught Industrial Arts, in other words, woodshop, metalworking, mechanical drawing. In the teacher's lounge, he heard several teachers talking about a student, wondering if he had dropped out.
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    Turned out, he was skipping classes. Every class except the ones Dad taught. The kid grew up to be a tool and dOmaker. 1970s.
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    Severe_Assignment9 43 2 hr. ago Your teacher was incompetent, then. Leaving that book out was an incredibly irresponsible thing to do. Also, I question the validity of this
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    story because it would have been easy for him to prove he'd been there, simply by producing the homework, classwork, or tests from those days.

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