Should Seniors Be Exempt from Taking Finals/ Leaving School for Lunch

    During senior year in most schools if your class average is a 95 or above you don’t have to take a final for that class.  It is too much work especially when they have to worry about moving into their college dorm. Also they had already officially ended school.  I personally think that should be allowed for junior year too. During school lunches students should be allowed to leave school grounds to get lunch.

     Yes I do believe that seniors should be exempt from taking finals if they have a 95 or above. Senior year is your last year of high school; you are supposed to have fun, especially at the end of the year.  Seniors have to worry about packing up their room and moving into their college dorm. Also getting all of the supplies they need for their classes.    When you’re a junior you have to handle a job, homework and studying.  You also have to worry about applying to colleges.  Juniors should be allowed to get exempt from taking the finals.  They have to handle a lot and they shouldn’t have to worry about studying for finals at the end of the year, which just adds on more pressure.

      In the summer everyone wants to go outside and enjoy the nice weather, not be stuck inside school.  Students should be allowed to go out for lunch for about a half hour.  The front office should have a sign-out sheet so you can sign-out if you want to go get lunch somewhere else. When you come back (on time) you just have to sign back in.  If you aren’t on time more than two times you should get a detention. If you don’t show up after you sign out you should get a one day suspension.  Doing that would let students have more freedom, we would be excited to come to school and we wouldn’t have to be stuck in a stuffy school for 6 hours straight.

   Overall having seniors being exempt from finals and being able to leave the school for lunch sounds reasonable. Students aren’t asking for a lot, just a little more freedom.  It would make school more exciting and less stressful. High School students do a lot of work and we should get to do something like this.  Put yourself in our shoes, wouldn’t you fight for this if you were back in high school?