Senior Skip Day

Many people recognize the Monday after a school’s prom to be “Senior Skip Day.” The seniors claim they are so tired from prom on Saturday that they need Monday off. This. Is. Ridiculous. I understand that prom day is long. Wake up in the morning to do your hair, then do your makeup, change into your dress hoping it fits after lunch, meet your group for pictures. After pictures, grand march at the school. Dinner follows grand march and finally you’re at the dance. Dance the night away until around midnight when you go to post prom. Post prom is a time to do recreational activities with your friends and your date. Some things my school had at post prom were a Velcro wall, jousting, and a hypnotist. Post prom was from midnight until 4 am Sunday.

I think senior skip day is ridiculous because students that attend prom can use Sunday to catch up on sleep, shower, get cleaned up, and be ready for school on Monday.  Senior skip day is just another day for upperclassmen to hang out and get drunk and high. I’m not saying every student uses Monday for drinking and getting high. I am, however, saying the students that went to prom and still come to school the Monday after are generally more responsible and care more about school than the ones that skip.

I’m not saying senior skip day shouldn’t happen, I’m simply saying senior skip day should be used to recover from the long day and night that occurs because of prom and not be another day for teenagers to party and drink.

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