{"id":5324,"date":"2013-05-24T09:20:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T14:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/?p=5324"},"modified":"2013-05-24T09:20:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T14:20:51","slug":"the-last-day-of-school-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/the-last-day-of-school-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"The last day of school blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5439\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/2013\/05\/the-last-day-of-school-blues\/olivia\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5439\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5439\" title=\"olivia\" src=\"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/olivia-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senior Olivia Kwiatkowski-Martin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In early May and June, schools from all over the state are releasing their seniors for their summer vacations. MPS decided to release the seniors of Midland County on May 31, 2013. Some of the seniors of DHS believe that being in school to May 31 is wasting their time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not doing anything in any of my classes except sitting around,\u201d senior Olivia Kwiatkowski-Martin said.<\/p>\n<p>Martin sits in class and does busy work in almost all of her classes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe seniors\u00a0aren&#8217;t\u00a0preparing for anything,\u201d Kwiatkowski-Martin said. \u201cAll the other students are preparing for finals; we have no reason to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senior Tommy Hall believes that going to class the last month of school is pointless and that seniors should get out a month early.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone is gone for AP testing and you sleep all the time,\u201d Hall said. \u201c[The seniors] should be done with school and worry about their own [AP and IB] testing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senior Chris Tae agrees with Hall and believes that the seniors should get out a month early too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy friends from Troy do that and\u00a0they&#8217;ve\u00a0been done with school for a month,\u201d Tae said.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Jessica McNeal believes that it\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0matter when the last day of school for the seniors is and that the seniors will still feel the same way about the last day of school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if you push the date back to the last day of school, there will still be that pointless work that the seniors have to do,\u201d McNeal said.<\/p>\n<p>The DHS seniors of 2013 are approaching their summer break and they are continuing to go to school until Friday, May 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early May and June, schools from all over the state are releasing their seniors for their summer vacations. MPS decided to release the seniors of Midland County on May 31, 2013. Some of the seniors of DHS believe that being in school to May 31 is wasting their time. \u201cWe\u2019re not doing anything in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":5440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[505,498,504,506,499,258,91],"class_list":["post-5324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3feature","tag-day","tag-jenna","tag-last","tag-of","tag-roden","tag-school","tag-seniors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The last day of school blues - UPDATE ONLINE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/the-last-day-of-school-blues\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The last day of school blues - UPDATE ONLINE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In early May and June, schools from all over the state are releasing their seniors for their summer vacations. 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