Teachers giving lessons to ever-so-slightly emptier classrooms! A few parking spots left bare! More room to walk when moving between periods!

BY: IKE WOODBURY – EDITOR

All due to a recurring disease which is sweeping the hallways clean of seniors! Those infected suffer from increased absences, piling up of homework, and plummeting grades! Some call it laziness… Others, demotivation… But most commonly… senioritis! (Dun, Dun, Dun!)

Okay, but is senioritis truly as bad as it’s made out to be? The antagonist in a black-and-white “Roaring Twenties” moving picture? Who better to answer that question than a completely unbiased high school senior who would rather get a root canal than sit in school?

…Ignore that.

So, without the ga-roovy style distracting from the whole point, what is “senioritis” anyways?

Oxford Languages defines it as, “A supposed affliction of students in their final year of high school or college, characterized by a decline in motivation or performance.” Big words for an organization who used the wrong medical suffix. (Seriously, the suffix “-itis” is for inflammation. The word should really be “senioropathy” with “-pathy” meaning disease. “Erm, actually” time over.)

Nevertheless! The effects of senioritis are, as the administrators want me to say, “nothing to joke about,” so just close your eyes when the funny bits pop up.

One of these effects, a decrease in attendance, could very well prevent you from graduating. With too many missed and unexcused absences, a student’s attendance credit takes the hits. When it’s finally KO’d, the fight keeps going anyways, throwing merciless punches while you’re down. For every five missed days and/or tardies, 0.25 attendance credit make-up is added as a graduation requirement for the student in question.

While there are school activities that can reduce the make-up, there are only so many of these in a year. If no more reduction opportunities are available, students are required to do 10 hours of community service for each 0.5 credit make-up they have. That is, if they want to get a high school diploma.

Senioritis takes another victim.

Adding to that, when work is assigned at the end of the year, but it isn’t done, the grades of infected students have the potential to dwindle to a level that would force them to moonwalk off the graduation stage empty-handed.

As much as I’m gonna hate myself for saying it… I guess you should keep going to school. How will you ever find the motivation to attend? idk lol. nothin in place to makr ud wsnna go. couldnt evne finish thjs artclie befroe thr disease got tk me. np spell chrck on the editng progarm as yoi csn see. idec tk fix thid bro

Fin.