IT’S JUST the start of days getting warmer and days feeling longer. Summer is right around the corner. Many are already getting excited about all the plans coming up this summer. Now, many Lancers are starting to get ahead of themselves.
Towards the end of the year, everyone starts to get lazy, and school starts to feel like an option. Although it’s sometimes OK to take a day off, don’t procrastinate completely. Procrastination hits harder around this time of the year, but hellooo?!? There’s still an entire quarter left.
Mamadi Marega (12) has pretty decent grades. He’s lucky that this year he didn’t get a full schedule and only took four classes: art, English, business office, and accounting. “Right now I’m struggling to turn in assignments, but my grades are looking good,” he said. He can’t lie — he is trying to fight the laziness that’s starting to hit.
Mr. Schmeling, an AVID teacher, works to communicate expectations with his students most of the time. They do grade trackers every week. On the trackers, they write down their grades and the assignments they still need to complete. He tries to talk to each of his students individually about their assignments, and he really connects with them to help them improve their grades.
Samantha Cruz (11) says she is starting to struggle with school attendance, but she said her grades are decent at the moment. “Not going to class is like an addiction,” she said. “It’s the end of the year! It’s the summer feeling and knowing I’ma be out,” she added. The feeling of summer is starting to hit her hard. She’s even too excited to wake up for school. Although she may be going through it right now, she hopes to finish the quarter strong with good grades so that, when summer comes, she can be stress-free.
Mr. Keyes is a very open teacher. Every day, he greets everyone in the halls, saying good morning or good afternoon. When he sees students in the halls and knows they haven’t been coming to class, he tries to encourage them to attend because, obviously, it’s not good for their academics when they don’t. “I don’t want to make students feel bad for missing class — I want them to come to class. I like to say, ‘you’re alive,’ to just kinda joke around with them,” he said.
Teachers are witnesses to everything that happens around the halls here at Granger. They’re always greeting their students as they walk into class. They definitely are the ones who notice when they’ve seen their students around the halls, but also when they don’t show up to class. Realistically, Lancers have to lock in, but at the end of the year, everyone (teachers included) needs a break sometimes, and that’s A-OK.
