Before I start, I need to give some context. In my highschool, it’s forbidden for students under 18 (so almost everybody) to leave school grounds for as long as they have class. This is mainly because in theory you’re the school’s responsability whilst you are meant to be in class, so unless your parents pick you up or something, if you leave school and something happens to you, it’s the school’s fault. Hence, you can’t leave.
However, it is rather easy to leave. Since the main entrance is the only obstacle a student has in order to leave the building. All you have to do is wait for no one to be near it, and you can just dip. This means that obviously a lot of students leave. And unless you’re caught in the act, teachers barely bother to actually check if you’ve left with parent permission or not.
This week was an exam week (since it’s the final week before Christmas break), and thus many of my classmates decided to either come only for the exam (and remain at home the rest of the time) or leave right after the exam. They did this so they’d have more study time at home. And since this week we barely did any work other than the exams, basically a lot of people were skipping non-exam classes.
I did get pretty fed up by this, since borrowing my friend group and a couple of the girls and the few boys in my class, almost everyone was doing this. I found it unfair, since these people were breaking the rules whilst I we were abiding by them and they were the ones who were getting more study time.
I decided to tell my head teacher, since I was unhappy with the situation. And sure enough he took action, he told us all that from now on unless you didn’t come to school for the whole day, you had to justify why you had left school. And if you failed to justify it, you would receive a written paper which your parents had to sign, and if you received more than 3, you got expelled.
This didn’t sit too well with most of my classmates, and they confronted me about it on Thursday. They said that it wasn’t my business to interfere on why they didn’t go to class, and that from now they would have to basically attend to all classes even if a teacher was absent or something. I told them it gave them an unfair advantage, but they still said that it wasn’t my business, and that if I found it unfair, I could just do it instead of snitching to the teacher.
Now most people in my class seem to not be on my side, borrowing my friend group. Even people who don’t skip seem to be against me, since they agree that it wasn’t my business. But AITA here? I just don’t see how it’s fair they get to skip class and have more study time whilst we stay at school for the whole day. Sure it’s none of my business, and some people might want to leave for other reasons, but that’s a minority, I know most of them do it to study at home (because they’ve said it themselves).
AITA?
YTA good way to make enemies at school and become disliked by others, and kids can really be mean and make the rest of your school years hell.
YTA. You are a rat.
YTA.
Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, likes a snitch in the class.
It’s their own fault and responsibility they’re skipping school, it has nothing to do with you. So why make it your business?
YTA…and you should know better.
It’s Barring my friend group, not borrowing
YTA. Yeah, it’s not your business. There’s nothing unfair about it, they weren’t given special perks, you could have done the same thing and assumed the small but non-zero risk of getting caught. You chose not to, which is fine.
YTA. Enforcing the rules is not your cross to bear. Tell your classmates if you have a problem instead of going above their heads immediately. Unless you are being unfairly punished or missing out on some sort of reward by following the rules, it is very easy to ignore the other people leaving. Especially since you said they were going home to study, that was an AH move.
YTA. And you’ve managed to turn everyone against you for the rest of the school year. You could have left it along, it wasn’t hurting anyone and it sounds like people actually wanted to study. So you were feeling petty and vindictive and decided to go snitch just because you could. Enjoy the consequences of your actions
YTA—them skipping is none of your business. It’s not like they’re cheating on exams or anything, they are using their time wisely to study. You sound awful.
YTA. If you didn’t like the fact that breaking the rules was giving them the advantage then you could have chosen to break the rules as well. There is no need for you to tell on people and this type of activity will not bode well for you in the future.
It’s not “snitching” if it’s important/whatever you are “snitching” about is causing genuine harm.
This isn’t important, what difference does it really make to you? YTA (and a snitch).
YTA.
Way I see it, while technically you did the MORALLY right thing, you don’t know why these people are skipping school, and, quite frankly, if they’re doing it out of selfish reasons and NOT to just go study, it’ll reflect on their grades. If people are skipping school? Let them. They’re the ones who will have to suffer the consequences naturally, not you.
*Your* grades aren’t going to get better by snitching on someone. All you did was put a target on your back. You just willingly sabotaged your social life at that school by openly throwing those people under the bus like that. And the worst part?
You did it for ***nothing.***
YTA. Stop trying to control what others do. If they get caught it’s on them. But now you just made yourself look like a snitch.