by Sydney Platt
Senior Ditch Day: the day that the senior class decides to flee their daily courses to enjoy the freedoms of their final year of high school. Students pick a suitable day in advance, and then send mass text messages to their friends informing them of the date, and then to forward the news to all other seniors. Unfortunately, this system is flawed due to the fact that the message may not make it around to every senior student, therefore ruining the unified event. This is precisely why many consider this past senior ditch day, Feb. 11, a failure.
After inquiring the attendance office for the actual number of absent seniors on the eleventh, the request was denied due to “confidential” information. So although we do not know whether Senior Ditch Day 2010 actually made an impression, we do know that a good quantity of kids did not participate. When asked about the number of seniors who attended class that day, senior Mackenzie Priest noted, “It seemed the majority of kids exceeded the amount of kids who did ditch.” Another CCA senior, Sam Roth, was not the only one with the excuse of having “tests and stuff,” that day. “It was easier to go [to school] and the seniors didn’t have anything fun planned that day, anyway,” pointed out Corey Sheppard.
The few students who did participate all seemed to have a lazy relaxed day. “[I] woke up, got breakfast with my friends, surfed, kicked back…enjoyed the beautiful day we had and the tradition of Senior Ditch Day,” said Matt Rhoades. Other responses included sleeping in and working instead of attending school. “[I] slept in and went to work early,” reported Chantelle Hume.
So why didn’t the senior class actually plan something? If the whole purpose of Senior Ditch Day is to carry on the senior tradition with your friends and create the absent class effect at school, why didn’t we all participate? This poorly student-organized event seems to only be furthering a feeling about CCA’s class of ’10, the feeling of great division.
“People spend as much time on themselves as they do judging and hating other people we go to school with. People are not accepting each other. People may think we’re not, but we really are a cliquey school. Our class hasn’t done a single thing together; Torrey Pines has done a lot of things like senior bowling. People need to reach out and be nice to other people, even outside of school at parties and stuff,” states Kelsey Moore. Even Sam Maron agreed with the fact our class simply has not done enough activities together. “[The reason is because] if the school organizes activities, it’s seen as ‘lame,’ so no one really goes to them except those small amount of people…. and everyone has their own group of friends and don’t really care to make new friends the last semester if everyone’s leaving soon anyway.”
Whether or not these opinions are true, it is a shame that the senior class has been struggling to come together and create a positive final high school experience. Luckily for us, it’s still not too late to change this outlook. All we need is to take more initiative as a class (with a little help from ASB in terms of senior activities), and channel it towards creating friendships and memories worth reminiscing upon. Let’s go out with a bang guys, 2010, make it count!
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