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Education / Pedagogy / School Planner | | English term or phrase: ditch days | | ... defines a habitually truant student as “a student having four (4) unexcused absences in any one month or ten (10) unexcused absences from public school during any school year. ” Absences due to the suspension or expulsion of a child shall be considered excused absences. An unexcused absence, which may be from a single class or multiple classes, is one that the school does not approve. Examples of absences that are unexcused include babysitting, oversleeping, working, missing the bus or ride, “ditch days,” or being gone ten minutes or more from an assigned class. |
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| | días de evadirse de clases | Explanation:
suerte!
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2 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 días en que el alumno "se paveó"
Explanation:
La expresión idiomática depende del país. En Panamá es "pavearse".
O sea, faltar al colegio sin justificación, sólo porque sí, porque se tenían ganas de no ir...
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Aquí hay montones de referencias que Paul Roigé recopiló amablemente:
http://www.proz.com/topic/17807?&print=1
\"Ditch\" es \"slang\", por lo que hay que guardar el registro, en mi opinión.
c slang : to get away from or avoid by artifice or stratagem <ditched me by sneaking out the back door> <let\'s ditch school today>
http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/unabridged
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Ditch (1939)
ditch v
1 tr, intr: To leave or stay out of (school) without permission; to be truant. esp c,sCA See Mapc1939 in 1984 Lambert- Franks Voices 72 OK, Us kids would ditch school and go bum a ride off some truck driver and fool around out in the field all day long. 1942 Berrey- Van den Bark Amer. Slang 839.2, Absent Oneself; \" Cut \" Class. . . Ditch. Ibid 839.3, Play Truant. Ditch—, skip . . school. c1950 Atlas Checklists WV, Ditch school. [Used by] Black male, 31 years old. Mostly Bluefield State College. 1960 PADS 34.44 nCO, Ditch school play hookey. \' 1965- 70 DARE (Qu. JJ6, To stay away from school without an excuse) Infs CA1, 14, 80, 96, 135, 177, 183, OH84, Ditch; CA59, 66, CO39, IL44, 59, Ditch school. [6 of 13 Infs young] 1967 DARE FW Addit IL, High School student says to ditch school is to stay away without an excuse. 1971 Bright Word Geog. CA & NV 200 c, sCA, He . . skipped class . . ditched. 1978 DARE File sCA (as of 1940- 59), In Long Beach, California, we always spoke of ditching school. Playing hookey was our parents \' and teachers \' term. \" I ditched school today. Did you ditch too? \" someone might say. 1982 Grit (Williamsport PA) 4 July 17, He \' ll think back to the days when he wouldn \' t have minded \" ditching school \" and going fishing instead. 1984 DARE File AZ, The boys decided to _____ school one day: ditch. 1986 Capital Times (Madison WI) 27 Mar 14/5 CO, He is their high school \' s biggest jerk. He treats others shabbily, ditches and fails most of his classes, . . and bullies anyone who will tolerate
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