With only months left before graduation, does every senior flip into another mode? The mode where high school really isn’t at the top of seniors’ priorities is often called senioritis. Senioritis is characterized by a lack of motivation and a decline in performance in the last weeks of a student’s high school career. Many think that senioritis just descends upon a select number of seniors, but in reality the thought of skipping class and homework crosses the mind of every senior. Senioritis is different in all seniors based on the attitude and work ethic they have towards school.
A decline in grades is a major aspect of senioritis. An affected senior has trouble concentrating on the things that will enable him or her to walk across the stage and grab a diploma. Take the case of Rosemary, a typical senioritis sufferer who began her senior year with a 3.9 GPA. By the end of the year, she wasn’t even eligible to graduate as a member of the National Honor Society because she no longer possessed the requisite 3.6 GPA which members must have. Rosemary wasn’t even taking classes as hard as the ones she took her junior year; she simply stopped doing her work. Some …show more content…
At the end of the school year, attendance usually plummets through all grades; however, poor attendance early in the year, especially in students who have previously been faithfully present, is a sure sign of senioritis. A rule called “seat hours” has been implemented to control the attendance of the victims of senioritis. Seat hours are the hours in each class needed by seniors to pass the class and walk across the stage for graduation. The last two or three months of school are when the attendance aspect of senioritis becomes truly obvious. Some seniors may only attend a total of thirty of the last sixty days of their school career or even less. The attendance of the senior class is based primarily on how vicious their attack of senioritis proves to
A decline in grades is a major aspect of senioritis. An affected senior has trouble concentrating on the things that will enable him or her to walk across the stage and grab a diploma. Take the case of Rosemary, a typical senioritis sufferer who began her senior year with a 3.9 GPA. By the end of the year, she wasn’t even eligible to graduate as a member of the National Honor Society because she no longer possessed the requisite 3.6 GPA which members must have. Rosemary wasn’t even taking classes as hard as the ones she took her junior year; she simply stopped doing her work. Some …show more content…
At the end of the school year, attendance usually plummets through all grades; however, poor attendance early in the year, especially in students who have previously been faithfully present, is a sure sign of senioritis. A rule called “seat hours” has been implemented to control the attendance of the victims of senioritis. Seat hours are the hours in each class needed by seniors to pass the class and walk across the stage for graduation. The last two or three months of school are when the attendance aspect of senioritis becomes truly obvious. Some seniors may only attend a total of thirty of the last sixty days of their school career or even less. The attendance of the senior class is based primarily on how vicious their attack of senioritis proves to