Senioritis beginning to set in
January 29, 2010 • Kit Schwarz, Staff Reporter
Filed under Feature
Wake up, go to school, sports practice, go to work, complete homework, pass out in bed, do it again. This is the most common and redundant schedule for your typical high school student.
Of course, each student has his or her different variations of busy school-week schedules.
For example, some students feel that the eight-hour day is pointless and the countless years of school are a waste of their valuable life.
“I feel I have more important things that I could be doing with my time rather than sitting in classes all day where I don’t really do much,” junior Andrew Kroll said. “I’d rather work at my job than learn things I’m never going to use in my life.”
Many students, like Kroll, lack motivation and don’t have the willingness to learn. Those same students feel that the knowledge they acquire in high school is irrelevant to their later lives.
“There’s really no point in learning biology, it’s not like I’m going to use any of that information later in life,” sophomore Eric Stumon said. “It should definitely be an elective.”
On the optimistic side, other students think the long days will pay off in time.
“I think it will pay off because you can find out what you want to do with your life and then you can be educated enough to do what you want to do,” sophomore Ashley Nease said. “You can also be whoever you want to be. It’s all up to you.”
When in school, the potential to learn is endless.
“I’m definitely set on staying in school,” junior Carolyn Malott said. “I get frustrated with school, but I know that I need the education. Keeping a positive attitude helps me stay motivated.”
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