Skip Day

[1] It is commonly held the school day following senior prom, the Monday after the Super Bowl, on Halloween or other holidays on which students are not given the day off from school, or after another large event.

School administration reactions can vary greatly in response to Skip Day.

[citation needed] There is no generally agreed-upon beginning to the tradition, but there are records of skip days as far back as the 1930s.

[3] The occasion was also notably depicted in Steven Spielberg's 2022 semi-autobiographical film The Fabelmans, in which the protagonist Sammy Fabelman films 16mm footage of his school's "Ditch Day" at the beach during a montage sequence set to James Darren's "Goodbye Cruel World."

This culminates in a short film that Sammy then edits, highlighting the events of that day, which is presented at his school's prom.