Although seniors have many responsibilities, they also have many special events to look forward to, such as senior privilege days, days that allow seniors to miss class and have breakfast or lunch with their friends. 

This year, the structure of senior privilege days has changed. Traditionally, senior privilege days excused students from their seventh period and during lunch. Now, it will be held at various periods throughout the year, including periods 1, 2, 5 and 6; privileges will not happen during periods 3, 4 and 7 this year. This change has brought mixed reactions from both teachers and students. 

“I have my first and second periods off in the morning, and my fifth and sixth off after lunch, so I can’t even participate in senior privilege,” senior Sebastian Rubio said. 

An issue with the past senior privilege schedule was that seniors were missing too much of the same classes: third, fourth and seventh periods, and sometimes they would not come back after the long lunch. Since the first, second, fifth and sixth period classes have lower numbers of seniors on campus already, moving the senior privilege days to these periods also helped lower the number of seniors missing classes. 

Administration has made a big push to keep people in class more often, and especially for core and AP classes.

“I can’t stop my curriculum because of the AP exams, so if a senior chooses to do senior privilege it is just like missing a day of school,” math teacher Carolyn Guzman said. 

Many teachers are unable to stop their curriculum for senior privilege days, potentially harming students who choose to participate in senior privilege days because they can fall behind in class. However, the reasoning behind these changes keeps the missed classes in mind. 

“The change for senior privilege days is to make sure students can go to more of their classes and miss less of the same class subject area,” leadership teacher Sarah Bearss said. 

Another reason for the change was the safety and security of both students and faculty on campus. Having students leave school for senior privilege and come back afterwards can create many issues. 

Though the dates and setup have changed, the procedure for seniors to get privilege days has not. In order to be approved for senior privileges, seniors need to go to the Class of 2025 eCampus page and look under “forms” to find the privilege permission form. Once they print the form out, they will sign and get it notarized, then turn it in to Bearss in the media center.