Senior Skip Day

Senior skip day is not an uncommon tradition. It always goes where the entire senior class decides on a day they will all skip school and demonstrate their “invincibility” by all taking a unified day off. When I was in high school, there was a senior skip day. I didn’t observe it, but many did. Like many high school traditions, I thought I had a pretty good understanding of what senior skip day involved, then I moved to the Delta.

My high school takes senior skip day to another level. In following the standard tradition, the seniors clear out as expected. With them, though, they take the majority of the school. It is not an exaggeration to say that there were less than 100 students at school, compared to roughly 650 enrolled.

Knowing that senior skip day was approaching, I asked my classes by show of hands how many weren’t coming. The results showed about half from each class. “That’s fine,” I thought, “I’ll still plan something for the ones who do make it”. Well what I welcomed to class that day was far less than even anticipated. Here’s the layout of students had all day:

1st Period - Enrolled: 18, Attended: 1

2nd Period: Enrolled: 17, Attended: 0

3rd Period: Enrolled: 17, Attended: 2.5 (one left midway through)

4th Period: Enrolled: 16, Attended: 2

5th Period: Enrolled: 13, Attended: 2

6th Period: Enrolled: 23, Attended: 5 + 1 kid from another class

7th Period: Enrolled: 26, Attended: 3 + 1 kid from another class

Now part of this attendance could be a result of the mini-hurricane that took place that morning, but the weather cannot have that much of an effect on attendance numbers. If nothing else, these signs further point to a day in May not too far away!