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ANYWAY, we bring to you today an ethical dilemma of underwhelming magnitude (POP POP).
We will discuss skipping class - is it in any way moral or edifying, and can it ever be wholly justified? Firstly, here are some of our reasons this term for skipping class.*
I can skip today because....
- I'm tired. (/too lazy to get out of bed)
- I've gone to all my other classes this week.
- It's just a review class....
- There's a guest lecturer.
- This won't be on the exam...
- It's my only class of the day.
- I have to finish a paper for a different class.
- It's raining. (A very useful excuse living in Vancouver)
- It's too nice out...
- I just plain don't want to go to class.
- I just got a new ______.
- My friend skipped.
- My friend is going and will take notes. (Between us, we could have gone to class 50% of the time, but we're better than that.)
So, are any of these justifiable? I would venture to say no. Perhaps the only excuses ever really good enough to make skipping class alright are that one has work to do for other classes. Also if you need to attend a funeral, perhaps.
But one also argue that skipping is actually better for one's mental health. If I had not skipped a single class this term, I can confidently say I would have been checked into a psych ward after attempting to colour in all the white space my own eyeballs. This following the (hypothetical) trauma suffered by the preschoolers who heard me yelling "hotdogs are coming to invade our planet!!!!"
At any rate, that is to say that perhaps breaks are needed, in order to function properly in the majority of classes. I'm sure if I had attended more Psychology 1120 classes, I would have some actual science to back this up, but oh well. At least I'm normal.
Right?
In conclusion, we have no conclusion. Skipping is usually not justifiable, but also not completely wrong. After all, it's your own money (or the banks. or your parents.) that's being wasted. So be careful when skipping, and make sure not to do it TOO much... It's a slippery slope.
Signing off.
($tay tuned for an extra mini-blog from Colin this afternoon.)
*Also, please note that this really only applies in post-secondary schools. To our younger audience, we do not condone skipping in any way.
