Dear Class of 2024,
Senioritis: a supposed affliction of students in their final year of high school or college, characterized by a decline in motivation or performance.
Most students have heard of this phenomenon before; the idea that the second semester of senior year doesn’t matter, that it is just a time for celebrating the end of high school, but we are here to tell you that it is simply not true.
The second semester of senior year is a time for homework, AP tests, and finals. These grades matter the most of any you have received in all of high school, because these are the last high school grades you will EVER receive. In fifty years, when you have a family of your own and a successful job, that one D- in the last quarter of Spanish 4 Accelerated will continue to haunt your days and nights. It doesn’t matter if grades are cumulative for all four quarters of the year. So what if you did well the first three quarters? Even if your grades are so high you could fail the fourth quarter and still pass your classes, those fourth quarter grades matter significantly.
Possibly even more important than keeping your grades up, attendance is crucial to a successful end of senior year. We’ve said it once and we’ll say it again: Every class counts. Tardies are for the pathetic, studies are for the weak, skipping is for the feeble. Attendance is always mandatory for every class, every club meeting, and every school event, always. Even if you have a double study, 2 teachers out, and only one class last period on a Friday, you should be in the building from 8:30 till 2:35. First block gym? Prepare to participate in intense matches of pickleball at 8:00 AM. Last block watching a movie? Sit at your desk focused until the bell rings at 2:36. We have conducted extensive research and there ceases to be a justifiable excuse for an empty desk.
So, seniors: now that we have proved that senioritis is a pitiful excuse for good-for-nothing young adults, we expect to see all 496 of you in every class every day for the rest of the year until you have a powerschool full of 100s and free of absences and tardies. And with that, we did it. Senioritis is eradicated.
Sincerely,
Two seniors with crippling senioritis