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Old 05-03-2008, 09:18 PM   #16
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Our school has no senior benefits :S All students can get parking privalages (sophomores ...and I guess freshman if ever possible, need to get some recommendations) and students are free to do whatever they want with their schedule. I don't understand the study hall privalage thing or taking less classes thing at all....you need so much to graduate and regardless, how is not getting more credits good for you in the first place? A college would probably look down on it.

Seniors here DO get one thing though. We get off school a couple weeks early than everyone else (considering you have completed your classes).
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Old 05-03-2008, 09:26 PM   #17
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I'm pretty sure that the only senior "privilege" that any seniors in my school get is that if you're eighteen, you can sign yourself out of school. But it's not that great since you can't go over a certain amount of days (like fourteen or something) or you can't graduate and you need an excuse and all that.

Although, you can leave early if your ninth period is study hall in any grade.

We don't have parking lots. It seems like everyone just walks because our town is only a mile long anyway.

Also, in P.E., seniors get first dibs on badminton and pickleball. Whoo.
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Old 05-03-2008, 10:46 PM   #18
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-get get the parking lot closet to the school, but it kinda sucks because the school buses block most of the cars in at the end of the day and hardly anyone can get out of the senior parking.
-seniors used to have the week of graduation semi-off (1-2 hour meeting every day and you got to leave after) and not have to come back after graduation (if they had to take finals then they had to come back the last day), but it changed this year
-We can have work release for 4th block
-We can do concurrent enrollment (juniors have it too, but the school makes it harder for them to do)

We don't really have that many special privileges. Apparently next year they are talking about letting seniors have off campus lunch.
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Old 05-03-2008, 11:02 PM   #19
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We get nothing.
SOME teachers let you not take the final exam, but that's all.
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Old 05-03-2008, 11:09 PM   #20
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Seniors get to graduate and go to college at my school
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Old 05-03-2008, 11:19 PM   #21
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Not much for our school.
Seniors can leave early if a class ends early.
Seniors have their special study hall where they can socialize in.
They have early dismissal.
They get a special parking lot.
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Old 05-04-2008, 01:59 AM   #22
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Im a senoir and I leave school by 12 everyday, park where I see fit (a privledge only senoirs hold) and break dresscode most days
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Old 05-04-2008, 02:44 AM   #23
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seniors have their own parking (although its not that big)
they only have 3-4 academic classes and can leave at lunch
they can go out at lunch (30 min lunch)
and then we have other activities as well like prom, senior breakfast, senior picnic, etc
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Old 05-04-2008, 01:22 PM   #24
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We used to have a senior hall (and a senior jail, actually, to kidnap the freshmen in...but that's rare)
But now our school remodeled, and the seniors get crabby "diamond benches" that are really just not very good.
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Old 05-06-2008, 07:56 PM   #25
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you guys stink! We have no privileges whatsoever at my school
we don't even get study halls!
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Old 05-06-2008, 10:09 PM   #26
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-Seniors with a 3.5 or above can opt to have an open period either at the end or beginning of the day.
-Dress code and other minor infractions are hardly taken seriously. General respect? (not a priveldge, I know, but teachers are now trying to press more important things than names and dates w/ homework just for work's sake) Can do more extreme fun during stuff like spirit week.
-We get prime parking right up with the teachers in the front of the school and are the only ones allowed to paint the cement stop in front of our spot.
-Guaranteed top lockers (which there were extra of... so they asked us 'permission' for juniors to receive some top lockers as well.)
- Exempt from second semester exams for year-long classes with a 90 for the last two quarters and 5 or less absences.
- We can wear our senior class shirts (otherwise, it would be our uniforms) every Monday and get Out Of Uniform every other Friday.

End of the year senior fun!:
- Our classes ended today while the rest of the school has a few more weeks.
- Any finals we do have to take... we're allowed to take in any order and as many as we want from 8-11am till this coming Tuesday (instead of an exam schedule.)
- Grad nite at Disney World! Grad Bash the night of graduation.
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Old 05-06-2008, 10:42 PM   #27
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Hm.

- Senior parking lot (big issue at our school, very bad roads and design etc.)
- Able to do whatever you like during free periods including leave the grounds.
- As long as you make it to classes, come in as early or late as you please.
- Access to any normal classrooms during lunch times or when they're not being used (for study, meetings etc.)
- During exam time you only have to show up for your exams (ie. no classes are held).
- Muck-up day/week. 1 - 5 days spent by seniors terrorising the school after their final exams (not as good as it used to be since induction of new principal and a few arrests).
- Off-campus lunch and morning tea.
- Schedule own classes, including one-on-ones.
- Best lockers.
- Senior Common Room. Absolutely the most bestest thing ever once entering Grade 12. Allowed to do absolutely anything there we please. Only Grade 12 students, the principal and groundskeeper/cleaners have access (but a spare key above the door for emergencies etc. )
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Old 05-06-2008, 11:18 PM   #28
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Your schools sound so HUGE... with the separate common rooms and the parking lots and the bridges... so jealous :P
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Old 05-06-2008, 11:38 PM   #29
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I'm counting graduating and never going back as a pretty big privilege.

Well, I guess we do have Senior Picnic Day, which is an attempt to get seniors to not to do Senior Skip Day.

So, yeah, we really don't have many special privileges. They try as much as possible to not differentiate between the grades (except they let all the sophomores get off their required exams this semester and sent them to a movie during school for free, just for passing the state standardized test above "proficient", which you should be able to do anyway if you can breath and hold a pencil).
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