The journey from kindergarten to your senior year in high school is a long and strenuous one. As the years go on, students continue to get more and more responsibilities. With those responsibilities usually come more freedom and privileges. As seniors in Moorestown High School, we are not entitled to as many of those privileges that we should be. It is as if we still have to deal with all of the increasing responsibilities without ever experiencing the benefits of growing older.

The most that seniors get to enjoy over the other members of the school is getting to either come in late or leave early. That one and only privilege is not even guaranteed to every senior. There are students who work hard for their first three years of high school to get their required electives in order to obtain senior privilege and still do not get it. Therefore they are stuck with absolutely no privileges at all and it is a process that students have no control over. Every senior in the high school should be entitled to at least one sort of privilege to serve as an incentive for the years leading up to it. 

There are other ways to reward seniors other than the system already in place. The first way that comes to mind is letting people who drive to school leave school for their lunch period. If they are able to arrive back in time for their next period class then it is not a problem. With every group of students there will be a select few that will abuse their rights but if that happens then those particular students should not be allowed to leave school anymore. Seniors would feel special if they were given the option to leave for school even just once a week. 

Another suggestion could be to let seniors with a study hall during any part of the day leave school and return back for their next period class. If you do not have a first or eleventh period study hall then you do not have to be in school during a free period. Students would now be able to control if they receive senior privilege when they select classes for senior year and the process would become a lot fairer. The only way that either of these choices would work is if the administration had more trust in their student body. The majority of seventeen and eighteen year olds are mature enough to follow the rules and enjoy the privileges that they have earned.