What's The Longest Time You Played Truant From School?

[tobytronic]

As per title and if you got caught, what were the consequences?
If you didn't, how come?
Any escapades occured from not being in class?
I have a few tales, which I will try to present in an interesting manner, whilst sorting my cats out.
The best one involves meeting Queen Elizabeth II, Preston 1977. Honestly.

[Ken4155]

I 'skived' school for almost 3 weeks when i was 12. I 'dossed' in a nearby empty house which some of us had turned into 'our den' and i would watch the guy from the school board knocking on my door - both parents were at work - before leaving a note through the letterbox, which i would retrieve a short time later.
My little escapade ended when dad came home from work very early and it was he who intercepted the school board's note. Once back at school, i was asked why i had truanted myself for so long, and i told the head that i wanted a transfer to a Sec Mod school where all my friends were. I still remember the steam coming out of his ears to this day :-)
I got my change of school shortly after.

[NYAD]

1961 !

[lankeela]

Two friends and I found an injured pigeon on Wood Green High Road on the way to school so we took it to the local Animal Shelter and then were so late that we didn't bother going in to school - my mum was meeting me in a cafe for lunch so I went there early and the woman behind the counter dropped me right in it by saying in front of my mum that I had been there since about eleven o'clock! That was the first and last time I had ever played truant.

[NYAD]

A friend had to go to the dentist and was afraid to go alone, so I went with her. After the appointment, we didn't have the means to return to school, so we hung out at a lunch counter in the center of town (where my uncle caught me smoking and reported me to my father). Anyway, I think it was pretty much the whole school day. We cooked up the plan on the bus on the way to school and I never actually went in to the school.

[johnk]

Only a day, can't remember why and I didn't get caught.

[Peter Pedant]

we had to account for just about every minute
bus late - and the nuns got narky ( as tho really we were at fault)

adults being irrational, post war - honestly you just got used to it
( like AB! - even I have stopped yawning at the screaming non sequiturs)

[Cloverjo]

I was a good girl, I was :)
I got knocked off my bike on the way to school, was taken home by a kind man with a van and had the rest of the day off. Mum was horrified by how white my face was.

[roopower]

Goody two shoes, I never played truant

[davebro]

Had a few times off sick at Junior school, don't think I ever missed a day at grammar school for whatever reason.

[Zacs-Master]

Never went to a single German lesson in my first year at high school apart from the first one and the last one. I’ve no idea now how I dared but there you go. I regularly took time out to go into town where my girlfriends mum worked in a fish & chip restaurant, so we got them for free.

[davebro]

A trio of us did regularly "bunk off" games afternoon though - went to play cards at a lad's house near school - so it was kinda games!

[ToraToraTora]

I never bunked off, that's why I am a rich genius.

[davebro]

and modest too!

[ToraToraTora]

BA material I reckon dave!

[anneasquith]

Never .

[naomi24]

I never played truant.

[Tilly2]

Same here, never. I loved school.

[jennyjoan]

never played truant as I was glad to get into school for a heat and a bite to eat and education.

[pastafreak]

It never entered my mind to play truant...even though there were classes I absolutely despised... Algebra and gymnastics.

[-SharonA-]

I believe I was the most unluckiest kid that played truant. Decided not to go to school one day, wandering around the shops when a nice kindly elderly gentleman with a tatty shopping bag asked me the time. I told him and he then asked why wasn't I at school. I told him I've bunked off with that he whipped out a clipboard out of his tatty shopping bag and took my name & address. I gave him the name of a classmate. Never did it again, well i say never.