High schools cope with senioritis. Bet you didn’t know there was a National Commission on the High School Senior Year. These presumably wise people state that “many students let one-quarter of their high school learning time slip through their fingers.” Horrifying, ain’t it. I remember that lack of meaning all too well. It arrives with the warm weather (and lack of air conditioning in my school). Schools have devised independent study programs, foreign study trips, seminars, and internships to keep seniors involved to the very end. But students are getting earlier acceptances to colleges and those dreaded AP tests are done long before school lets out. Keeping them motivated to study is a chore indeed. I hope they at least stay excited about the coveted Senior Skip Day. (via LTSeek)