As Columbus Day fast approaches, rumors have been circulating that National Senior Skip Day will be hindered by the mass production of presentations and test.

Teachers are planning a heavy workload for Tuesday in order to stop students from missing classes that day, threatening the senior tradition that students have come to expect in their last year of high school.

“I think it is unfair because seniors in the past have had their skip days and we should get our turn to have that,” senior class Vice President Nisreen Al-Suqi said. “If it’s an excused absence, then I don’t think it’s bad.”

IB students will be less likely to be skipping because of the rules the teachers are creating in order so that they do not miss class.

Senior Skip Day always falls between Columbus Day and the administration of the PSAT, a clever method allowing seniors to have a five-day weekend.

Many students have laughed at the idea of an overwhelming workload and think that there is no way that the teachers will have the power to assign it.

“It’s dumb because people are going to skip anyways,” senior Jonathan Gonzalez said.

On the other hand, teachers are saying that the workload they assign is not a matter of whether October 11 is a skip day or not, but rather how the schedule is working out.

“The bigger issue is that the schedule in which we are going on has the students start[ing] on a new unit, and I have no choice but to keep moving along,” IB HL English teacher Courtney Dearinger said.

“We hope that the students make good choices, and the consequence of Senior Skip Day will be [the students] will fall behind.”

By Andrea Melendez

Staff Writer