Sick Days

Do you take sick days often? How sick do you have to be for you to want to take one?

In the beginning of school yesterday, my throat started to hurt so bad and felt so swollen and my ears started to hurt and I had chest pains, etc. I felt worse today so I stayed home. I really didn't want to because we had an assembly in History to watch Hotel Rwanda. Though I guess it won't be too bad for me since I've seen Hotel Rwanda, so it's not like I'll have no idea what happened if we have an assignment on it.

But anyways, I think I take too many sick days. I don't like to go to school even if I'm mildly ill. Last year I had about 8 to 10 absenses from school. Though I guess I have to keep in mind that I had pneumonia so I was out of school for a week and two days. THAT was pretty sucky. I love taking off from school, but I was sick and bored out of my mine. I have about 6 absenses so far in this school year. Which isn't too bad. Unfortunatly though, my school has a dumb new attendance thing that if you have 18 period absenses from any full year class, you get denied credit. I have to seriously watch my absenses. xD

A kid at my school is absent all the time. It is still a mystery...

At my old (crap) school there were some kids who didn't come in for like a month and then one day they came...then they went somewhere for another week or so. Another mystery....

I don't have to be very sick to take a sick day because I work with infants and they don't want you spreading stuff around. If you're sick and contageous, you stay home.

I dont generally bunk off school by faking being ill, but I do over exaggerate how ill I really am.

I'm out of school but taking a day off work i gotta be sick. otherwise I'm throwing away money

I don't get sick very often, but when I do it is really, really bad so I'm usually away from school for a week or more when I've fallen ill. It sucks, but I guess it beats getting sick all the time, though.

i took a fake sick day last week. i got food poisoning on that fake sick day. now i've had sick week/ :(

From Elementary school all the way through to the 8th grade, the only time I took sicks days was in the 3rd grade for chicken pox. Then in high school I took a few sick days here and there until Senior year came around. Senior year, I had major senoritis and I took like dozens of "sick" days off. :D

I definitely will have a major case of Senioritis when I'm a Senior. Just a school year and 4 months and then I'll be a senior... xD

I haven't missed school for illness in nearly two years.

A year ago I got an award for 100% attendance. Ive already blown that this year, I missed a few days at the beginning of term as I was on holiday. (I missed School photo's. HOW WAS I MEANT TO KNOW THEY'D BE SO EARLY? Everyone else has a fancy new year 9 one, I have an 11 year old wearing pig tails ;_; )

Im hardly ever ill, besides, if I was, my parents would still make me go in.
I always remember my Dad force feeding me Cereal. I threw it all back up in the school toilets.

I've already missed like 11 days of school. I'll take days off when I don't up for school or whatever. Then when I get really, truely sick I end up having to go to school because of some test. >> It all works out in a backwards way.

Yeah, I'm usually sick 8-10 days...maybe even more. It doesn't take much for me to tell my mom to call in sick. Sometimes I just really do not feel like going, cause I'm depressed or whatever, and so yeah. Maybe I need to take school more seriously, but whatever. Not caring right now.

I hardly ever missed school for illness because I never got sick back then. I get it a lot more now, I guess that just comes with getting older. I had to take two sick days last month because I could barely move. That's usually what it takes. If I can move, I'll go in.

I take sick days if I'm sick, but unfortunately I don't get sick a lot. I get a feeling I'll be getting sick a lot more over the next two months.