well my parents kept splitting up (resulting in a lot of temporary stays in hostels/refuges ect) I have moved all over the place and everywhere I have moved to no matter how long I was enrolled in school.
my sister played the illness trick to dodge a lot of it and i resorted to pure rebellion.
thankfully things improved when I was 17 (too late for me) but my brother has had a more settled experience. the bad part is that I flunked out of school with a gcse in art (and I really made no effort in the subject)
I am doing a uni course now, its made me more determined that my kids have a settled school life, the stealing was fun though, I also used to play tricks, annoy the bullies, mimic people and generally use my lessons to perfect my staring out of windows, I especially enjoyed flicking bits of rubber at teachers heads... ;)