Skidging School

[Russell]

Hi all

It was 'skiving' school in Musselburgh too but where I went to primary school in Ormiston they didn't need a word. Everybody knew everybody else and we were all feart o Miss Mitchell the Quali teacher. The 'headie' lived at the end of the village just next to the field the farmer planted tatties in so at 'howkin' time you didna dare get caught there. We got a fortnight off school for 'the howkin' anyway so you could make a bit pocket money.

Wini you would never 'dog' school

Russell

[Malcolm]

It was called playing truant. And, when i was playing truant I was scrumping apples. I was born in Tunbridge Wells. It's not my fault. OK!!
MM

[Tracey]

For us in Essex it was Bunk Off ( dictionary description - slang, make a hurried and secret departure ) but when i was caught i was put on 6 weeks day report

[joycehender]

I would always use skiving but, when I was growing up in Fife, we called the school truant officer the "pluggie man" and some people referred to "plugging" school.

Joyce

[Tracey]

Our version was the School Board Man. He drove a silver cortina and always had his German Shepherd dog with him (wonder why ! ) Anyway, he knew where we were sometimes (at a friends house) and he used to come in and chat to my friends mum as they also had a German Shepherd. He was more interested in the possible breeding of the dogs than he was in us

[StewL]

I have to agree with DWW

My mother who came from Clarkston Airdrie always used plunking school, when talking about playing truant (who me never mum honest)

[wini]

Russell,
I didn't dog school because I knew I was the one who would get caught.

I knew Ormiston in the forties when I used to spend some of my school holidays in Tranent. Caught the Ormiston bus from Waverley Square I think or the Winton bus.
Uncle used to walk us up the Ormiston Road and over to Winton somehow or other and back to Tranent after church on Sunday's. It kept us occupied as we weren't allowed to do anything else on a Sunday not even play cards or Monopoly
.
I grew up on all those old Scottish sayings. "The devil makes work for idle hands" " Cleanliness is next to Godliness" etc

wini

[WilmaM]

In Glasgow in the 70's 80's it was called 'doggin school'

Hasn't changed much here either - my daughter, in first year, announced the other day that "So & So his a dogger-card"

[joette]

"Plunkin" the school was what my parents would call it but as a sixties/seventies child at Clydebank High was definetly "dogging it" & yes I had a "Dogger's timetable".
My sister could forge my Mother's signature beautifully but she was a "goody" so could not often be prevailed upon.I hated school mostly although loved learning so would spend a lot of time in the library-when not swimming or in the sauna!

[DavidWW]

Thank goodness two others have come up with plunkin(g), - I was beginning to doubt my memory ..................

David