How to Skip School Without the Repercussions

Every school runs differently, however, if yours runs similar to ones I've experienced, the following will work for you.

I assume if you're the type of person to skip, you probably don't have any problems lying to your parents. You also probably don't tell them entirely what goes on in the classroom, so use this to your advantage. We also live in a great age of discovery - finding out new things every single day about the world and the things in it. (The following technique utilizes this, also!)

Our school ran on the following idea: If you're absent, they'll either send a phone call to your house asking for you, or request a note the next day. Disconnect the phone line just enough to make sure it's out, but make it appear that it's still in. (Most parents don't make phone calls in the morning, so they shouldn't notice.) Now for the note. Not everyone makes a perfect forgery, so how about the original? If you don't have a computer at home, then go to school the next day and tell them you forgot your note and you'll bring it tomorrow. Then use the computer there.

Once at a computer, design a worksheet that says something about a recent discovery about the relationship between your parents hand writing and your own, and how it reflects something psychologically. Have it request a sample from both parties, and have it give general guidelines. Something like "Have each report an absence due to illness" or something along those lines. Be sure to make the paper look as legitimate as possible. Print it out and fill in your part (making it as if you would use it as a sick note), and then have your parent copy it. Cut out the parent version and turn it in the next day.

Simple, eh? Just remember, it's a one time use thing. It would be obviously suspicious if you presented more then one of these cooperative worksheets to your parent. Also, just a reminder of common sense: be real about it. Don't act all uptight when presenting the worksheet to your parents and the resulting note to your school authority. Make it seem as much like a real homework assignment as you can. If you tend to not bring homework home, and your parents question it, say it's worth lots of extra points due to the add-on of the parental figure. Don't come up with some long-term illness on the note, only to be doing backflips as you turn the note in. Play the character; don't make yourself a cancer victim. A simple stomach flu or headache will suffice.