Why not miss a Friday?
For as long as I can remember, I've preferred not to miss school. This prefference has grown right along with my amount of homework. However, I don't think that being sick and missing a Wednesday or Thursday is quite as frustrating as missing a Friday due to illness. On Friday, I told my mom this, and she asked me why. I will attempt to explain my reasoning in the next two or three or four paragraphs.
Friday is TEST day. Many teachers attempt to get testing over with before the weekends, and therefore test on Fridays. As we all know, missing a test or assignment due date isn't a good thing. One thing piles on top of another, and by the time you get back to school, it takes about two or three days to make up the one that you missed.
Secondly, we don't have school again until Monday. This means that I'll be having to worry about all of the things I missed for the entire weekend. There is, however, the benefit of having the weekend to recover... but still...what if you get better by Friday night? This leads into my third reason for not wanting to miss a Friday at school.
Ever sinse I was little, if I missed school on Friday, I felt like I couldn't do anything the entire weekend. If I had fun and/or played with friends or got wild, I felt guilty. Usually, I couldn't play with friends if I hadn't gone to school (this makes perfect sense). So, when I feel lousy on a Friday, I don't like to miss school, because I feel like I've thrown my weekend away...like I won't be able to have as much fun or do as many fun things with my family.
I don't know if these reasons sound silly to anyone, but oh well. My mom told me that a legitimately sick student should be able to miss one day of school without losing points, worrying, or feeling guilty. While I agree with her, I still came to school half-way through Friday. The above reasons are given for why I "decided to show up." -quoting Mr. Rich. Haha. Just teasing. Have a wonderful weekend everyone. You're all allowed to because you came to school on Friday. Haha.
1 Comments:
I love you Whitney. You're awesome. Yeah, I hate missing Monday's too....mostly because I'm as sick as a dog right now and I'm convinced that I'm going to school tomorrow but my mom says otherwise. We'll see how I feel in the morning. =P See you later! Hopefully tomorrow!
Lindsay
February 25, 2007 7:25 PM
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