skipping school

He discovered skateboarding and surfing in junior high and was soon skipping school for the waves so often that his mother hid his board.

The lead educational psychologist for Glasgow, Barry Syme, told the BBC that absence is not generally about kids skipping school.

“Skipping school sign my note?”

When she’d hit her teenage years she’d started rebelling — skipping school, shoplifting, she’d run away from their Lewis County home a few times.

She screamed so much that she fainted and, for months felt despondent, skipping school to sleep or wander the city.