Senioritis Should Be Allowed In Schools

I found I’m not alone according to two leading experts on procrastination, Joseph Ferrari, professor of psychology at DePaul University and Timothy Phikul, professor of psychology at Carleton University 20% of people identify themselves as chronic procrastinators and up to 70 percent of students in one study said that they procrastinate. This habit affects so many and it one of the most difficult tendencies to kick but fortunately there are ways to go about solving the issue so today I would like to inform you all about why people procrastinate and the effects it can have and also ways to overcome it.

Nothing else really matters to the teenagers at the time because high school is all they really know. Senioritis plants a poison in senior’s minds that they don’t feel something is necessary to them. The poison injected by senioritis stings of change. Although there is nothing wrong with high school, seniors begin to feel dead. They don’t find the excitement of attending high school anymore. Senioritis can be contagious; it gets to the best of the seniors out there. Without realizing it, seniors mentally begin preparing to leave their lives as they know them for change. Seniors don’t really comprehend why they suddenly resent high school, but they do. They are bored with it. High school becomes dreadful to the seniors, and they just want out. Senioritis makes seniors anxious to get out of the boring, humdrum lives they lead and move on to bigger and better things, though they tend to have no idea what those bigger and better things may

At a young age, we as a collective society have experienced the first-hand the struggles of attempting to be successful. We are told that excellence inevitably leads to success. We are told as children that one must go to college in order to be successful. As a result, children aspire to go to college only because we are told it is essential to be successful in life. The path to be a success is a stressful one and requires a great deal of work. There is too much homework, too many tests, and too much needless pressure is put upon the shoulders of young children by their parents. In her essay “Is the Drive for Success Making Our Children Sick?” Vicki Abeles argues and exposes the harmful effects of the drive for success. Abeles incorporates other ways to improve a child’s drive for success with consideration to the children’s health. One of her strategies for a healthier drive that would be beneficial and adopted by both college educators and fellow students is a limit on homework and weekend and holiday homework ban. Although a drive to be successful is essential for achieving excellence, limiting homework would be beneficial because it is less overwhelming for students, provokes less stress and

Senioritis is one of the ongoing issues high school students are always warned about. But, to what extent is the warning meaningful to us? In my opinion, I never thought of senioritis as a common disease that has the power to contaminate the upperclassmen. When I was an underclassman, I always heard seniors complaining about teachers giving them so much homework and procrastinating every single second. At one point, I would be annoyed by their complaints. I didn’t believe that senioritis was real until now, as I’m constantly thinking about when I will go home and continuously slacking on my schoolwork. Many seniors, like me who have developed

Urban Dictionary states that Senioritis is “a crippling disease that strikes high school seniors. Symptoms include: laziness, an over-excessive wearing of sweatpants, athletic shorts, and sweatshirts. Also features a lack of studying, repeated absences, and a generally dismissive attitude. The only known cure is a phenomenon known as Graduation.”

The term senioritis is common and popular in both the United States and Canada. Though students in United States and Canada are known for lack of motivation senior year, many other countries find themselves stuck in the same scenario. All school districts and counties have their own ways of dealing with senioritis and getting students through the final haul of their high school careers.

Think about being a senior with only months left before graduation. Think about not wanting to go to class, about wanting to skip all things resembling homework, and daydreaming of what your future holds. What makes a senior fall victim to this crippling disease that includes symptoms such as laziness, lack of studying, repeated absences, and the over excessive wearing of track pants. This is known as senioritis and the only known cure is an antidote called graduation.

Imagine a 12th grade student sitting in class looking miserable, tired, and annoyed. Looking around, one notices her mood seems to spread and show up in other students. One by one each person in the class changes. They snap at each other, turn work in late, put in half effort, and don’t pay attention. Teachers notice it, parents notice it, and even the students notice it. The cause of this lack of interest is simple, senioritis. While senioritis isn’t considered a serious sickness it has only one cure, graduation. Senioritis is a sickness that most seniors experience at least once in their lifetime where a student is done with school and have mentally checked out before the year has come to an end. A person stops putting in effort and stops caring because they are simply tired of the whole idea of school.

Expert Frank Bruni created a believable article stressing the idea that teens overstress over anything that regards to school, whether it be their grades, stride to follow in the expectations of others and themselves, being active, staying in sports, or attending every club a school may offer. I believe in this article due to its use of statistical evidence from other schools and colleges as well as Bruni’s personal experience. The article does have one major hitch that holds it back from becoming credible to most. This hitch is the lack of statistical evidence from a variety of other schools and backgrounds.

We all start high school with certain expectations for ourselves. Mine? Simple-do not procrastinate. But somehow I still found myself awake at 4 A.M. trying to cram in a chapter's worth of biology notes while simultaneously writing a paper on Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven.” Fast forward to junior year, both my parents’ expectations and my procrastination levels are still extremely high. “Why can’t they just understand that I’m not the same, straight-A student I was in middle school? High school is so much harder.” I thought to myself as I sat and stared at a blank screen. Here I was, doing anything but my assignment. I didn’t even know why I couldn’t finish anything. It’s not that I didn't have motivation, I wanted to do well in school, I just

The problem of procrastination starts when a student waits until minutes before a class to study for a class. This may seem like a solution for students who are pressed for time; however, this doesn’t allow time for the information to be solidified and vital information can be lost. These behaviors form because students have found that in the past they were able to successfully pass the class by doing their homework literally hours before the projects deadline. This reckless learning may help pass the class, but doesn’t give the information the time needed to be solidified into memory. This reckless learning also produces effects within projects that are often below the students’ academic level and can cause

Normally, young people are full of Vitality,but I am the exception. After football practice, I become very indolent and absentminded. I would sometimes forget some homework, so when I woke up I would have to quickly finish my homework. On really horrendous days, I may have finish homework during school. I have been close to missing assignments, but that has never happened.

Every student sets goals and deadlines to get their work done on time, but some wait until the last minute. As the grade level increases, the work load and difficulty increases, leading to more procrastination. Most students in high school procrastinate, and the question is, why? Is the work too hard? Do their teacher’s leniency cause them to? Do students not have enough time? Do extra-curricular activities take up too much of their time? There has been many other research studies on this topic, but I wanted to see if the students in my survey and interviews had any different correlations.

Apathy presents itself in more than high school students. Senioritis was once the only major apathetic problem in schools. Student apathy has crept its way into middle and elementary grade levels. As students reach the end of their public school education, they often slack off in their schoolwork, which is known as senioritis. With little pressure on the seniors, they take the year off by producing as little amount of work as possible. Students affected by senioritis are not prepared for college or the real world. Their reading and writing skills deteriorate when they are not learning in their senior year The students who go to college after this stay in school for longer than the usual four years (Puente 1). As student apathy displays across all grade levels, it becomes a major problem. Relationships between students and teachers as well as the teaching methods used highly affects the lower grade levels. Students bored in the classroom often check out and fail to stay engaged in their class (De Lay, Swan 111). Little

The American Psychological Association took a survey of one thousand eighteen teenagers between the ages of thirteen and seventeen, and several of them reported that they felt overwhelmed and depressed because of high-stress levels. Eighty-three percent of those students said that the primary cause of their stress was school. When students are given multiple assignments from multiple classes, we start to commit the crime of procrastination, due to feeling