Senior Ditch Day

Today, Monday April 23rd, is senior ditch day at my local high school. I walk into my first period class with no idea how many people will show up. Only one other person showed up including me. This really surprised me since I expected at least five students to not want to take the notorious 3% hit off of their grade. I started thinking and asked myself the question, where did senior ditch day originate and why do we still observe it today? After a few clicks after searching this question on Google, I came up with the answer because the seniors can. The links brought me to the Wikipedia page for senior skip day and it said there are many days seniors typically skip, the day after prom, April 20th, May 5th, the day after Halloween, and the day after the super bowl. The page even said that it has gotten so bad that some schools dispatch the local PD to catch all the kids who skipped out on school. Here at Deerfield we do have a traditional skip day and it is the first Monday after prom, which gives students one more day from the prom weekend festivities.