SENIOR PRIVILEGES

With the school year coming to end, there is one thing that seniors here at Eastview seem to always be looking forward to, May 29th, the day their senior privileges begin. In the past 11 years of Eastview, senior privileges have been a tradition that seniors look forward to at the end of their last few weeks at High School. Although the traditions have stayed the same throughout the past few years, seniors this year want to change it up a little.

Most seniors question, why we can’t have open-campus lunch, or open-campus study halls like other schools get to enjoy? When most students don’t understand the liability issues we have in District 196. Ms. Hansen (head of student services) explains why it is so difficult for them to allow us to leave, “District 196 has a closed campus policy which means students aren’t aloud to leave campus during lunch and study halls. Much of that is a liability issue because all the lunches are only about 25 minutes, kids trying to drive to get food eat and come back in that short amount of time would just not be a smart decision. Anything that happens to them during that time is on us, were responsible for them throughout the entire day.” However, the Senior Committee has been brainstorming every Wednesday morning for the past few weeks to think of the perfect senior privileges for this year’s seniors.

The full details are not set in stone yet, but the senior class representatives have been thinking of how to make this year’s privileges different than any other year, but with the administration involved it has been difficult to make any progress at all. Senior Committee member Kaitlin Ullrich explains that they pushed for something more this year, “We have tried to make this year’s privileges different from any other year, but it has been so hard because every idea we have had the administration has turned away. We tried many ideas, like the off campus lunch, and having 10 absences for 4th quarter, and even trying less finals for all seniors. All ideas were turned away, but I think the Administration is strict because they know that if they’re lenient we’ll take advantage of it, so I see it from both points of view.” So it looks like this year the senior privileges won’t be too different from any other year.

2009 SENIOR CLASS PRIVILEGES: (**=new privileges)
1.During study halls you may go outside on the patio or use the east fields.
2.During lunch you can also sit outside on the patio or out in the east fields. You may bring 3.George Forman grills, portable basketball hoops, putting greens, Frisbees, etc.
4.“Senior Only” lunch line
5.Senior Parking, including priority parking in the front of each student lot for students with a parking pass.
6.** The sale of additional parking permits: for seniors without a parking pass; 20 additional passes will be sold for 10$ each.
7.** 10 spots in the North Faculty Lot will be raffled off each week.
8.Your bracelet is now your hall pass; no blue hall pass in necessary.
9.Lunch delivery the week of June 2nd.
Inta Juice
Chipotle
Jimmy Johns
Little Caesars Pizza
10. “Days off” June 10th and 11th seniors don’t have school.


The administration wants to remind kids that these are privileges, and the students shouldn’t abuse them. “The privileges that seniors get for the last few weeks of school are really kind of above and beyond they are just little perks, nothing major but things that are special for them (seniors) as they end their time here at Eastview High School, but along with privileges are responsibilities. So we fully expect our seniors to be responsible in exercising their privileges.” Explains Dr. Franchino. Senior privileges are granted to those seniors who are on track to graduate in June, and have all fees and detentions cleared up.

So it looks like there won’t be any new senior privileges for these seniors to be looking for, but it is always an exciting time of the year and seniors should expect nothing less than an amazing end to their senior year here at Eastview.