Senioritis
High
school seniors everywhere suffer from a classic case of senioritis,
a disease that seems to swarm over second semester seniors every spring.
“You
start doing other things besides doing your work, and you feel like
going out and watching movies,” explains seventeen-year-old Jill.
For
second semester seniors, the lack of motivation for studies is often
replaced by a motivation for something else, to carve out a lasting
high school memory beyond having their head in a book.
“In
some ways you do need to give them a little bit more room to do some
of the things they feel they need to do with these last few months at
home, these last few weeks of school,” says senior advisor Lasley
Gober.
But
if students grades fall too far, they do risk their college admissions.
Every year high level colleges turn back a handful of students they
had accepted. Experts say parents should strike a balance. Accept that
their childs grades may slide, but make it clear what the consequences
are if they slide too far.
Gober
explains, “That they have to go to summer school and that when
they walk across the stage they wont get a real diploma, they
get a piece of paper that says `see you in summer school.”
