Do you believe that it is righteous to allow students to ‘skip’ senior year? In Marc F. Bernstein’s dialogue in the Sunday Review entitled, “A Cure for ‘Senioritis’?”, he discussed that seniors should have the option to ‘skip’ senior year, on terms to do other studious activities, such as volunteering and working at a job. Some, like Fernando, do not agree with what Bernstein has conversed about. Skipping senior year could include taking the full year off, taking only a selection of classes and receiving service experience. The skipping of senior year is an agreeable concept and will not damage the students’ gaining of knowledge, but better it. Prepared students who have received all of their credits and would feel that it is best for them to ‘skip’ senior year is a great way to better the student's education and maturity. Giving the students the ability to choose which path they wish to take opens a new perspective of how they must prepare for adulthood. The students who choose to ‘skip’…show more content… Some seniors may have lost the pursuit of getting high grades and Fernando says that, “Also senior year is full of long awaited emotional experiences of high school.” These experiences would include the prom, senior activities and privileges, as well as the time to fix academic needs. With the option to ‘skip’ senior year, those who wish the stay for the privileges given to the seniors, can stay to do so, but they may miss out on the academic opportunities received by those who skipped senior year. Such as, the head start on college courses and adulthood. Fernando further explains that students would be divided and the option is, “... only allowed for those that are ‘highly prepared.’” Indeed the students who are not extremely prepared may not be given the option, but this will help those students strive to achieve this by their senior
