Four long years of high and with graduation approaching, the wait is agonizing.
With the seniors counting down the days till they are done, the hours feel longer than ever. The sports are ending, the dances are over and only one more big event.
“It is very typical to feel senioritis in the last stretch of the school year, but you have to make sure you walk the stage,” Samantha Fuller said.
The attendance dipped, and the grades dropped with the will to come to school.
“I have had to petition every semester since junior year,” Brayden Tirri said. “I am hoping I can get the credits one last time.”
With the rule, students must come to school 90 percent of the time and only be allowed to miss nine days per semester. If they miss more than nine, students must petition for their credits from classes.
“I was out of absences in the first semester before the quarter even ended,” Fuller said. “It was a struggle to make sure I did not have to petition for my grades.”
Senioritis makes it harder than ever to come to school, but if the petition does not pass, they become at risk of needing to retake classes and not walk the stage with their class.
The senioritis has been hitting all year, but the wait to walk the stage is hitting students harder than ever.
“I show up because I have to get my credits,” Duke Williamson said. “The best advice I have is to just keep going through, do your work, tough it out.”
Underclassmen always say they have senioritis, but according to the seniors, it feels a lot different when they are actually seniors.
“Each day it gets harder to wake up and go to school and do the same thing over and over again since freshman year,” Fuller said. “I used to joke around and say I have senioritis as an underclassman, but there is definitely a big difference by the time you’re a senior in spring, ready to take on bigger responsibilities and a career.”
As the days drag on, the urge to come to school and sit in a classroom becomes much harder.
“Getting my diploma is the only thing keeping me motivated to keep going,” Tirri said. “My advice to underclassmen is to do your homework and go to school.”
The drama becomes annoying and draining over the years, and by senior year, students are just ready to get out of school.
“I am definitely over all the drama and cliques that come with high school,” Fuller said. “As long as your work is done and your grades are kept up, I think kids will be on the right track.”
