Parking lot on Skip Day at Ward Melville High School on November 1, 2011.

Skip Day (also called Senior Day, Senior Skip Day, Ditch Day, Senior Ditch Day, Cut Day, or Senior Cut Day) is a tradition in schools where students in the senior class skip school.[1]

Description

It is commonly held the school day following senior prom, the Monday after the Super Bowl, on Halloween or other holidays in which students are not given the day off from school, or after another large event.[2] Often, students will gather at an alternate location during skip day.

School administration reactions can vary greatly in response to Skip Day. Some schools openly encourage the practice, helping the students pick a day to take off and advising teachers not to schedule exams on that day.

There is no generally agreed-upon beginning to the tradition, but there are records of skip days as far back as the 1930s.[3] The film Ferris Bueller's Day Off was a catalyst for several Senior Skip Days in the 1980s and mid 1990s.[4] At Caltech, "Ditch Day" has become an annual tradition.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Perle, Elizabeth (9 May 2013). "The Dos & Don'ts Of Senior Skip Day". Retrieved 12 May 2017 – via Huff Post.
  2. ↑ "The Dos & Don'ts of Senior Skip Day". Her Campus. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
  3. 1 2 "Ditch Day! - Caltech". 24 May 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
  4. ↑ https://themerionite.org/3683/features/tradition-taken-too-far/#:~:text=The%20“Ditch%20Day”%20has%20been,classic%20Ferris%20Bueller%27s%20Day%20Off.

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