Sentence examples for ditching school from inspiring English sources

"Before, kids were ditching school, you'd see constant fights, the lunches were nasty, the garden looked disgusting.

Until near the end, when events take a more serious turn, Antoine, alone or in the company of his impish friend René, mostly just bounces from one dopey, tolerably amusing activity to another — ditching school to go to the movies, lying around smoking pilfered cigars — and, when he has to, deals with the minor crises that crop up too frequently in the classroom and at home.

Influenced by an older brother and his friends, he began ditching school and fighting.

Zamperini was a tough kid, smoking, stealing, ditching school and headed for trouble.

My friends were ditching school; it was a bad environment for me.

Our teacher, Ms. Coffey, told us that a lot of students had gotten tickets for truancy, which means ditching school.

He ditches school, but never gets suspended.

In the summer of 1978, he ditched school and travelled around Texas to see bands like the Sex Pistols and Television.

Kindergarten and year 1 students at Lowther Hall Anglican grammar school in Essendon have ditched school uniform dresses and skirts.

In 2001 the devolved government ditched school league tables; it has also replaced some standardised tests with teacher assessments, making robust comparison of schools impossible.

A 15-year-old was recently suspended, a reluctant penalty at this last-ditch school, after he threatened another with an iron bar.