Skipping class has always been a problem: students being bored, trying to kill time, not wanting to go to class, or having work and deciding to skip. At our school, the most common way students skip class is by wandering the halls. We are going to interview these class skippers and get to the bottom of this recurring issue.
“I’m out of class because this school sucks,” one senior said.
“I left physics because I was bored,” one junior said.
Students at our school have “truly profound” reasons for leaving their class. Extreme levels of boredom and hatred of our school have led to an epidemic of these hallway wanderers. But how do they escape their class?
“I signed out to go to the bathroom and now I’m taking laps,” one senior said.
“I said I was going to go to the bathroom,” a junior said.
“I just walked out of the room,” another junior said.
Students clearly have creative excuses to leave without questioning from their teachers, with ideas ranging from walking out of the classroom, to walking out of the classroom.
While most classes at our school are said to be boring, there is one that has been repeatedly said during the day.
“I was bored in math,” a senior said.
“I’m skipping math,” a junior said.
Math has appeared as a front runner for “boring class of the year” leading to the most hallway wanderers and longest wandering times.
Some teachers have begun fighting back against the long bathroom breaks.
“At the beginning of the year, I noticed that many students were taking a long break to go to the bathroom, so I started taking down names. Starting in the second quarter I set a three minute time limit on bathroom breaks, but that has become a little more lenient in the fourth quarter,” English teacher Alec. Hicks said.
Hicks has also seen an increase in wandering students following covid.
“Students have appeared as entitled to a break in class, which is leading to more or longer breaks,” Hicks said.
Some teachers have begun to catch on to the wanderers, but others are still behind. From boredom to extreme boredom, students will find any reason to escape their class and meet up with friends. With the number of students roaming the halls it may be time for our school to consider additional measures to keep hall time brief. Until then, students will continue to wander the halls.
