Senior year should be relaxing– for the most part, fun, and exciting. Senior year is the year where there is more school spirit than ever. There are many events we look forward to in this last year of high school: homecoming, senior week, prom, and most importantly graduation. We buy the most expensive dresses for the dances and graduation and go crazy during senior week– well we did. What’s changed over the years? I’ve noticed in the past couple of years I’ve been in high school that the senior class loses enthusiasm, and maybe it has to do with stress from essays and college applications, but I don’t think that’s the only case for the Class of 2018. Recently, there has been a complaint about Senior Servant Day and it was taken away just a week before the event, being replaced with Pajama Day. They say it symbolized slavery (even though it was a voluntary thing and participation was not required). Most seniors were looking forward to the day, many have been participating in it since they were freshmen and have been awaiting the day for a long time. It wasn’t fair for them to have missed out on what some would say the heart of senior week. I’ve spoken to several seniors and they all said that this atrocious event is the reason why they did not participate during senior week. As an underclassman, I looked forward to what our upperclassmen put together during this week devoted to them.
I will be a senior soon and I am no longer excited for my last year. Whoever made this decision or was part of it is absurd. It’s bad enough that we lost our freedom of speech when dress code was more and more enforced over the years, but now take away our fun too? Administration questions why kids rebellious, but don’t realize their unjust calls are one main reason behind it all. Pajama Day is not a solution, its pure laziness, and garbage because they couldn’t find something better. Well, they should find something better because Class of 2019 refuses to have a boring senior year. Administrators, if you’re reading this, shame on you. Upcoming seniors, if you’re reading this, let’s fix yet another mistake made by our faculty.