By Xanni Brown, ‘10, Lighter Fare Section Editor; and Allison Lazarus, ‘10, Perspectives Section Editor.

Pressed for time?  Forget an assignment?  Not to worry!  No teacher can resist these time-tested excuses.

1. Your locker jammed and Mrs. Mapes left her crowbar at home.
2. Tech Week.
3. Mr. Dunn tore it up.
4. Mrs. Dunn tore it up.
5. You had just finished your paper when your computer crashed because you were just too curious about that “awesome product that really works!” on Facebook.
6. Existential crisis, prompted by Mr. Black’s Nietzsche packets.  What’s the point?
7. You’re secretly a CIA agent and you were on a classified mission and if you told your teachers you would have to kill them.
8. You died.
9. You were scouring the city for that perfect Halloween costume.  (Please no one take Bunch of Grapes!)
10. You were on an official visit to Phoenix Online University.

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