As the end of the school year approaches, many seniors become afflicted with senioritis. This diagnosis includes the decline in motivation which leads to missed school days.
Many reasons students fall to senioritis include, having an end-goal mindset, being bored, or just knowing they have all of the requirements needed to be done with school.
Often students look at completing high school as their end-goal. As the opportunity to reach the goal approaches, they begin to lose inspiration and begin looking for a new goal. Sophia Stoner (12) felt she had reached her end goal.
“I feel like I don’t need to be in school anymore. I already have everything I need to graduate,” Stoner said. “I only have three classes and I leave school at 11:30 each day so I feel like there is no point.”
Some seniors could also be undergoing boredom with coming to school and doing the same things for the past four years.
“School just isn’t my speed anymore. I have other projects and other goals now, school is just so boring and pointless now,” Burke Koser (12) said.
Some students begin to feel senioritis before the school year begins, Mitchell Martin (12) decided he was going to do devote his time towards something more important
“Going online was the best choice I’ve ever made. I took three classes at the beginning of the year and that was it,” Martin said. “Now I just go to work everyday and do something with my life.”
Seniors no longer view attending high school a primary priority for entering the workforce or going to college. They now have new goals to strive towards and achieve.
