Day of Paradise or Day of Punishment?

Senior skip day is a long lived tradition among seniors everywhere. Every year at the end of the third quarter, the seniors plan a day to spend together before school comes to an end. Many teachers accept the day, and many do not. “Everyone was a senior at one point and should understand that senior skip day is a tradition and one day out of the year shouldn’t be such a big deal. It’s the last day for most to skip class and have fun with friends before summer, and college,” says senior, Tyler Luba.
Knowing the tradition, some teachers purposefully added extra assignments on the “skip day” that were unable to be made up to penalize the students for being gone. Many students that didn’t participate in the skip day and were actually gone for legitimate reasons were penalized as well, because the teachers just assumed that they were cutting class.
Although many adults are opposed to it, there are a few teachers and parents that understand, without encouraging, the skip day. Senior skip day is a day of fun for the students that have worked so hard over their years in high school, and one day of carefree fun shouldn’t be looked down upon.

By Jenna Balogh