Senior year is marked by graduation, senior portraits, Ethics Day and, above all, senioritis. This final year of high school provides minimal intellectual stimulation, especially after the start of second semester. By making grade 12 optional, students can choose the academic path that is best suited for their needs.
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Can high school students afford to skip their senior year? That?s the question Utah Senator Chris Buttars is asking in his proposal to make the final year of high school optional potentially saving school systems an estimated $60 million. He claims that many students fall prey to ?senioritis? and don?tContinue Reading
During a trip to the mall during the holidays, I sat in a long line of cars waiting to enter Tyson?s Corner Mall. After circling the each floor of a parking garage, I reached the top level, only to realize that there were no more parking spaces. I figured the rush was simply due to the holidays and that it would die down in a few weeks. However, it didn?t. Even subfreezing temperatures and snow couldn?t keep hordes of shoppers from backing up the exits from 495 to the mall.
Every year since elementary school, we?ve heard teachers telling us that our entire academic careers serve the purpose of building up to college. Getting into college, going to college, succeeding in college – everything we seniors have done for the past twelve years builds up to that fat acceptance letterContinue Reading
‘Don’t ask, don?t tell? is basically against the American political ideals of honesty and transparency, by asking someone who devotes their life to serving our country to lie about who they are from the day they begin to serve. Not only is it morally wrong to force a soldier to lie, but it is detrimental to the armed forces to limit who can serve to people who fit the extraordinarily limited ?traditional? definition of who should serve be allowed in the military.
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