Seniors enjoy snow days without penalty

Most students look forward to their senior year of high school. It’s their last year of absolutely having to go to school. Some can slack off a little bit, although it isn’t advised. But nearly everyone looks forward to snow days. Unlike snow days for all the other classes, snow days–to seniors–can’t and won’t ever affect graduation day. In other words, school could be cancelled for ten days and all other students would have to stay in school past the first week of June. But the graduation day for seniors won’t be extended; it will remain May 15.

 

It’s almost as though the seniors are getting a double benefit: they don’t have to go to school due to a snow day, and then they don’t have to make up that day. Lots of seniors, thusly, were excited about the burst of four straight snow days last week. There are many reasons why this rule should be kept the same–not that there was any debate over it to begin with.

 

It would be pointless to continue school after already having graduated. It could potentially cause a big problem. Imagine this: seniors having to come to a class they’ve already passed to do classwork that wouldn’t count. It could also be source and reason for fighting and rioting. This is sticking with the train of thought that graduation day can’t be changed; that it’s a date that was set so far in advance, it would cause too many problems to shift back.

 

On the flipside, consider if the day was pushed ahead to be aligned with whatever changes the snow days caused. Some seniors have college plans right out of high school. If they were to be kept later and forced to make up the snow days with everyone else, those plans would be ruined. 

 

 

In the end though, the main reason seniors don’t have to make up snow days is because of the date. Graduation day is a set date, planned months in advance. To change that date would just be too difficult for the school district.