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Blue_Tires

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12. 80 days?

Reply to Kalidurga (Reply #3)

Thu Sep 4, 2014, 08:22 PM

Sep 2014

That's more than I skipped/faked sickness in grades 1-12 combined...

Hell, I don't know the exact number, but it used to be that 25-35 documented absences would automatically trigger a repeat year where I grew up...

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Brave Teen Refuses to Attend Middle School, Chooses Jail Instead [View all] Blue_Tires Sep 2014 OP

How is this good? yeoman6987 Sep 2014 #1

It's Gawker. That's its tone. Brickbat Sep 2014 #7

Thanks! yeoman6987 Sep 2014 #9

How is this a crime of obstruction of justice?? SummerSnow Sep 2014 #2

I would have chosen jail if given the option. Kalidurga Sep 2014 #3

80 days? Blue_Tires Sep 2014 #12

Yep I had no idea until my counsolor told me how many Kalidurga Sep 2014 #13

I've never understood how "resisting arrest" can be the first and ONLY charge ?! KurtNYC Sep 2014 #4

Teenagers don't always get what they want. Jenoch Sep 2014 #5

Gotta wonder if there might be something deeper to all this. AverageJoe90 Sep 2014 #6

The deeper meaning is this kid is a hero AngryAmish Sep 2014 #8

Perhaps this kid is being bullied in his new environment... Earth_First Sep 2014 #10

I don't want to go to work either, but I wouldn't consider myself brave to refuse to go. FLPanhandle Sep 2014 #11