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By Hasan Mirasyedi, Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senior year is a  year filled with excitement and anticipation for the next chapter in life. With being a senior comes many perks. More freedom, prom,and  graduation, as well as a more controversial one, senior skip days. Senior skip days, or ditch days, are days when the majority of  seniors  skip a specific day of school. Senior skip days are usually held on days after big events like prom, sporting events, or school events. Traditionally students would gather at another location for the day. However, now senior skip days are days where seniors can work on college applications or just relax and do whatever they neede to do. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sounds like a great time for seniors. A little bit of harmless fun skipping one day of school, but is it fair for the students in younger grades? Sophomore Karina Lynn doesn\u2019t think it is, saying \u201cSenior skip days are dumb. While seniors are sleeping in, I still have to get up early and go to school.\u201d Karina also added how it could disrupt certain classes by saying, \u201cmixed grade classes might not have enough students to complete activities the teacher might have planned. That could ruin the teachers\u2019 day.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Math teacher Mrs. Walker disagrees, saying, \u201cI love it, I’m all for it. Only if the student is responsible for making up for their missed work, and if they don\u2019t then that’s on them.\u201d And when asked if it ever interferes with her plans for the day she replied with \u201cNo, if I hear about it ahead of time I’ll just modify my lessons to make sure we don\u2019t learn anything new and make it a review day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most seniors seem to agree with Mrs. Walker and enjoy spending their time off. Senior Henry Zatkowski said, \u201cmany students have already applied or been accepted into colleges so skipping a day or too won\u2019t affect them too much.\u201d Senior Andrew Rodgers argued that senior skip days are fair and that \u201cthey are a well-earned break for the seniors as [they] deserve it. Plus everyone eventually becomes a senior, so they\u2019ll have their share of senior skip days as well.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senior Hao Bei Balentine is also a firm believer in senior skip days. He mentioned how \u201cseniors use these skip days as a way to de-stress and catch up on the college application process.\u201d Whether it be applying to colleges, scholarships, or more, Hao Bei believes that \u201csenior skip days really help [seniors] prepare to make the next big steps in life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the waning months of their academic careers, seniors de-stress and relax on skip days. However, they are responsible for their actions and must complete any school work they miss, or face the consequences of getting a failed grade. After all, the absences are not excused and it could affect their chances of graduation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Hasan Mirasyedi, Staff Writer Senior year is a  year filled with excitement and anticipation for the next chapter in life. With being a senior comes many perks. More freedom, prom,and  graduation, as well as a more controversial one, senior skip days. Senior skip days, or ditch days, are days when the majority of  seniors …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":3650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[286,269,211,285,482,483],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","tag-journalism","tag-rhhs","tag-river-hill","tag-river-hill-high-school","tag-senior","tag-skip-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/unnamed-2-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3651,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3644\/revisions\/3651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/riverhillcurrent.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}