Senior Privileges

They’ve spent around 13 years in school already and now as seniors in high school, these students are in the last stretch of their high school careers. Don’t the seniors deserve a special privilege for all the hard work they have accomplished so far? Apart from a handful of select classes, ending their school year a few days before everyone else, and the honor of being a senior, seniors at Blair High School aren’t really given any special privileges that set them aside from the other grades. There are schools all over the United States that offer special privileges to their seniors. These privileges include things like senior-only parking spaces, open campus lunch, and shorter days. For years now, students have had the choice of either bringing their own lunch or eating the school’s lunch, but what a better way to reward the seniors than to let them have open campus lunch and be able to go eat at a restaurant in town. People argue that open campus lunch might be a bad idea because students could get into trouble or come back late, but having open campus lunch seems to go fairly well at the schools that offer it. If students get in trouble or come back late, their open campus privileges could always be revoked, but if lunches were extended to 45 minutes or so for seniors, there shouldn’t be much of a problem of late arrivals among the students. For their final year in high school, the seniors of BHS certainly do deserve special privileges that aren’t offered to their underclassmen classmates.