Dylan Senecal

Cheryl Nielsen (Left) and Annalee Lorusso (Right)

Throughout the past couple of years, Stamford High seniors have tried to acquire various privileges. Administration has been approached with the ideas of senior privileges, but they have a lot of concerns. Some of these include liability, safety, and seniors not coming back after leaving campus.

We think that senior privileges would be a great idea. We understand the concerns that the administration has, but many of them could be fixed. For example, liability can be handled by all the seniors giving their parents waivers stating all the rules and regulations of leaving campus and coming back, and the parents can decide if they want to allow their children to leave school grounds or not.

Another senior privilege could be that the seniors get their own section of the parking lot. Security guard Charlie Dixon says, “Seniors should have their own parking lot.” Dixon believes that juniors pose a threat to seniors’ automobiles. Dixon also believes that during study hall seniors should be allowed to go outside in the courtyard to study or to do homework.

Dr.Valentine was asked about senior privileges, and she largely agrees with Dixon.  Regarding seniors studying in the courtyard (another privilege that is often proposed), her only concern is that classes will be going on and it might make too much noise. She did say, however, that another  “catch” would be that the senior class would have to clean the courtyard up first.

Dr. Valentine said that she has also been trying to get stickers for the cars in the parking lot that says “Class of 14” or “Class of 15.” Finally, Valentine said that she wants all students to know that she didn’t take away senior privileges, specifically work release.  She said that it used to occur during periods six and seven,  and due to the schedule changing those periods can now be at any time of the day.