When I was in high school -- it seems like three lifetimes ago -- during my senior year, the administration decided we were responsible and mature enough to handle what would be called a "Senior Card".
This "Senior Card" was the epitome of freedom for high school seniors everywhere who wanted to come and go without being accountable to anyone during the school days. The administration gave us the card for the second half of our senior year and the card gave us the freedom to literally to come and go as we pleased.
If we had doctor appointments, or jobs, or slept late, or whatever, all we had to do was flash the card in the office and our tardiness or absence was excused without a note from a parent or a doctor. That was so cool for us.
And, we took full advantage of it. Frankly, I was lucky to graduate from high school! I know I have the paper somewhere, but I'm not so sure the empirical evidence, in this case, is justified. If the truth be told, I don't remember showing up more than one or two times a week for the entire last semester. And since the school wasn't requiring excuses from a parent, my parents didn't have a clue.
Oh, the stories I could tell ... then there was Mrs. Hall, my English teacher -- I think from 10th grade. We were really cruel to her. She actually retired early because of us. But, that's for another time ...
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