Chat Hel's Chat Room of Off Topicness II: Helbound.

The good thing about uni is that noone cares where I am as long as I hand in the papers I'm supposed to write. Although it's kinda sad, because noone cares where I am.

 

Nirning =_=

Shocking surprise I skipped classes too, a lot, mainly because my higher school time was full of arrogant, abusive teachers, who dont have to follow the rules themselves.

In fact my pal there and I (the class clowns) once incited the entire class (except for 2 teacher-sycophants) to skip a day, as a response to the teacher punishing one of us unjustly.

 

Well, I'm only in high school and they care, along with what we call "Leerplicht" (It means "Compulsory education" but we also use it as a word for the collective instances that enforce it)
They care a lot actually. Because if you don't go to school they'll have a little chat with you. And if you still don't come to school they'll have a chat with your parents. And if that fails they'll have a little chat with each other and then kick you off of school.
This might become a problem if you get tuition support, because that debt can rack up fast. And if you don't get your paper at the end of a ten year period starting when you first get tuition support, it will stay a debt.
(You have 10 years to get a paper, and then tuition support and the costs on your student public transportation card becomes a gift.)

 

Yeah, back in school we had the same basically, we just called it "Schulpflicht" - can even be enforced by the police on paper, but they have enough things to do in the first place, so that's not done. Though expulsion was always an option, so my attendance in school was pretty good.

 

If it becomes really bad and you're underage, Bureau Halt can step in to try get your stuph sorted. Basically think juvenile detention department of police, aimed less at locking you up and more at trying to change your ideas in life. Possibly community service.

 

Skipping a class only affects you. I don't get it when teachers complain to you about it. I don't want anything to do with teachers actually. not bacause I'm a bad person but because possibly getting bad grades from people you know is shamefull. I don't want any extra quilt.
Now while not being on class is generally bad, there can be benefits. I still don't encourage it but you shouldn't fret too much if you miss a class.

 

I'm guilty of it too. Skipping for either sickness, work that's more important at the time, or simply because I knew nothing would be happening in the class and didn't show/really didn't feel it that day.
As long as it doesn't become a habit and you take care of anything you missed, I don't see much of an issue with it.

 

May we ask, what happened?

Ill open up for the first move - two pals and I once skipped quite a long time because a classmate and friend had drugs smuggled into his drink, he went onto the highway on a bike - incoming lane.

 

For some stupid/fun contrast:
I once had to skip a lesson because during break we were basically playing makeshift baseball with a bottle of water and random items, and launched a (how the hell is that even possible?) bread that got so stale and hard it blasted right through a window and hit a construction worker in the face - who promptly rushed over in rage. Guy was about 2 meters tall and broad, only muscles.

 

coding again today! finally adding combat to the game



oh no! a wiffle!

 

What a fearsome beast

 

Bullying is such a widespread problem it seems that it makes me wonder why noone's brought up any ideas on how to fix it yet. The damage it does is known (you and I got away relatively easily it seems), but noone really proposes anything new that might work.

 

The only thing I had against bullying was to not exist at all. I made myself one or two close friends, and did not existed for the rest of the school.

It worked so far.

 

Way to go.
In terms of friends, its "quality over quantity" as they say

 

Word.

It's weird how society views bullying though. 50 years ago that wasn't an issue but we progressed far enough as a society that we can talk about the damages though. Now everyone and their mothers are completely against bullying, yet noone seems to fund research into the topic.

 

Living by The Golden Rule works wonders. I just wish more people did it, things would be much simpler and easier for everyone involved.

 

True, but if humans operated 100% efficiency and logic every single moment we'd be on Mars by now I guess. We'd also not have any attack helicopters so the vast majority of my posts here would be 50% less interesting I guess.

I usually don't deal with that kind of contraband, but have a....
*shudders*
civilian helicopter:

 

Wait the only golden rule I know is "see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil."