By: Haley Berry [Quill Editor]
Senior year. A year everybody starts thinking about as soon as they open the door freshman year. A bonus about being a senior is getting out of school about a week earlier than every other grade just to finally take the last step of being in school and to graduate. And the night of graduation, after the ceremony, everyone knows about the famous tradition of post grade…only this year…there could be no post grad?
At a recent senior meeting students were told that instead of having the usual POST grad AFTER graduation…it may have to be done after prom. Mixing the post prom party with the post grad party? That just doesn’t seem fair. As freshman, the class of 2011 had to undergo many changes to the high school already, such as the food served at lunch, the salad bar got taken away, the famous mentor meetings, the no backpack rule, and the no sugar rule. Now merely 3 years later the senior class will possibly be losing the post grad. opportunity? How that is fair at all?
Yes, it being after prom could be a lot easier and a little less stressful with maybe more adults/chaperons available to help out. But freshman go to prom! Every grade can go to prom if a junior OR senior asks them! Meaning ANYONE could be at post prom. At least at post grad other students have to be invited as underclassmen by ONLY seniors because it is a SENIOR night. How many of those do seniors have? A night that is supposed to be about celebrating SENOIRS graduation is going to be taken away to be after prom? Like stated, it’s just not fair. Every single grade ahead of the class of 2011 got to do it, doesn’t this senior class get the same respect, just like everyone else?
The class of 2011 has been in school 13 years waiting for this night, they deserve a post grad party after the graduation ceremony just like everyone else in this school has. The graduation class of 2011 was the first class to be presented with all other changes and now they may even be dealing with the lose of a graduation tradition.