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Senior Ditch Day (thing)
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by
Lometa
Fri Jan 21 2000 at 15:07:23
.......was last
Friday
for my son. He asked me to call the school and have him
excused
for the day. I
lightly
told him something to the effect of, what would be the point of an
excused absence
for a
Ditch Day
.
Friday
came and he told me his plans to attend
first hour
to take a
test
(colleagues who do this to manipulate students are
reprehensible
).
Friday
evening rolled around and as he came through the door I asked him about
his day
. He told me, he and his friends had gone to see
Mikey Mack
and then headed out to
Sabino Canyon
.
Mikey Mack
loved school and all the things that are a part of it. He had
fun
with his teachers and was
kind
and
loyal
to his friends. He had a
zest
for life, a
smile
that would
light up a room
!
When he
died suddenly
in June of 1998, the kids were
devastated
. A glimpse of
mortality
rudely
invaded
their young
lives.
They
asked
uncomfortable questions
about
his
death
.
Summer was mowed down to a standstill.
They went to movies
together
and then out late to a burger joint to just
talk
, not about Mikey, but understandably, to have the
reassurance
of being together, to find some kind of
sense
out of his death. I
shamefully
lied to
worried
parents who called because they were
out past curfew.
I told them they were on their way home and quickly placed a phone
call
to remind them their parents were expecting them home
safe and sound
.
I knew that in the back of their minds the
parents
too
wondered
if not for the
Grace of God
, it could have been their
son/daughter
.
Mikey's obituary
bookmarks
my Bible at
Jeremiah 31:15
. I
think
one day my son will want it.
It is
poignant
to know that Mikey will go on, in a sense to
graduate with the Class of 2000
.
The
school called
yesterday morning,
inquired
as to my son's
absence
on Friday. I told the Attendance Clerk,
a fellow parent
, about their
Senior Ditch Day
and we recalled a few things about
Mikey
, how his brother died a year later and wondered how their parents bore the pain of the loss of their
life's work
this Christmas.
I asked that my son be
excused
for the day.
Ditch Day
How to screw with people's heads at the mall
senior skip day
Jeremiah 31
How to travel to a LAN Party
Mikey
Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man
how video games are programmed
real death stories
Somewhere between adolescence and senility
May 11, 2000
The Hollow Men
I remember
March 10, 2004
How to get lost
Sabino Canyon
The Dying Child
Ye Olde Space Band
April 20, 2000
Play hooky
Poignant
February 19, 2003