From the title, I think y’all can guess what this post is about. There are a couple of things that are bothering me about the one for this year. The school needs to figure out how to stay out of senior skip day. Something annoying they’ve done in the past is give tests so that anyone who isn’t there automatically fails. This is frustrating for a couple of reasons:
1) It’s merely one day skipped out of the whole year, so the teachers sinking the kids’ grades is a little extreme, especially since one missed class wouldn’t ordinarily require more than a little makeup work or just asking to see someone’s notes.
2) Senior Skip Day is tradition, and isn’t done out of spite for the faculty.
This year they are encouraging Senior Skip Day, and want for us to have a low key party on campus. I understand where they are coming from, and I appreciate the support, but the whole point of Senior Skip Day is to skip school. It’s fine to give a list of dates that are school-sanctioned for skipping, but for it to be on campus from the direction of Frank Gendusa is too much. The definition for Senior Skip Day is:
“Skip Day (also called Ditch Day, Senior Ditch Day, Cut Day, Senior Sluff Day, Senior Cut Day, or Senior Skip Day) is a tradition in American schools where students in the senior class skip school.”
The point is to skip school. It’s in the name and the definition. Come on.
3 comments:
Hey Abbie,
So a few weeks ago, I had a meeting with Ms. Bond, and she was telling me that for the last few years, Senior Skip day has turned to having a negative stigma, and a lot of students were doing it out of “agh we’re so done with stm” kind of attitude. She was also saying how like it really messes up teacher’s schedules because for some teachers, they go out of their way to design their days and what they’ll be teaching, so to be set back will mess their planning up.
Of course, being an officer for our class is difficult, because I’m stuck in between setting an example for the grade but also wanting to have a full on senior skip day. And I don’t know, I agree with you too, at this point in the year, all of us, especially the teachers probably, are hanging on by a thread. Maybe the teachers should do their own Teacher Skip Day lol.
I understand both sides of the argument here. I feel bad that some of the teachers think we're doing it to spite them, or that their lesson plans get messed up, but the negative attitudes of classes before us should not determine their opinion of our class and our reason behind skipping. Personally, I just wanted to do senior skip day because we've had almost nothing this year. No prom, no off campus retreat, no ring day, graduation is going to be tiny; just none of the senior traditions that I was really looking forward to. Senior skip day was one of the only things that COVID couldn't really affect (ignoring the fact that we can't hang out a grade like classes before us have), and I'm just really disappointed that we can't do it properly. Like Abbie said, the entire point is to SKIP SCHOOL. If it's on campus, even if we get here late and leave early, defeats the entire purpose of having a skip day. I just wanted to sleep in, I literally get like 3-4 hours a night and I'm tired. I appreciate that they're trying to make it fun, but what makes it fun is not coming to school at all. And, as we saw from the argument that happened in the group chat with the senior girls, the majority of us don't even want to hang out with the whole grade. During a regular school day, we can avoid the people we don't particularly get along with, but if we have a party in the parking lot or whatever they want us to do, we're going to be forced into socializing with people we purposely avoid on normal days. I know Coach Gendusa said in assembly that we should be friendly with everyone and do our best to graduate with no bad blood, but let's be real, with the way this year turned out, that's just not very realistic.
Hey Abbie. I understand what you’re saying here. Choosing for Skip Day has been nothing but problematic. People keep changing dates, people are wanting to do it out of school when we can’t, etc. I see how having it at school seems ridiculous, but I think it’s better than nothing. We don’t have prom, so this is pretty much what we have left.
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