Seniority

Seniority is a sketchy topic that a lot of people have different opinions about. The most prominent example at Kennedy High School is when it comes to the football games.

In a perfect world, seniors would sit up front with the juniors behind them, followed by sophomores and then freshman. But we all know that nothing is perfect in the world that we live in. In my opinion it should just be expected that the seniors sit in front and so on, but there are always exceptions which just cause a lot of problems. Last night at the homecoming football game, "seniority" did not exist. Being a junior I feel that the past two years of being pushed around earned me the right to sit closer to the front. Yes, I could have gotten there a little bit earlier than I did, but thats beside the point. Every year the new senior class takes over because they FINALLY have the chance to do whatever they want-I know that I will do the same thing. All the underclassmen should just suck it up and understand that in two or three years, the turn will be theirs.

Every Friday on the announcements the "student section leaders" as I like to call them come on the announcements and remind everyone of how the students should sit by grade level. For once can we just do it like that? I'm not being that picky here, if you have one friend or two in a different grade than that's fine but whole groups of people gets a little annoying. Most of the time, students don't even watch the game so why do  they care if they have to move back? In the end, just deal with it underclassmen, we had too.

Another prime example of seniority is when it comes to certain tasks on the swim team. None of these are that big of a deal, but they come to my mind when thinking about this topic. About once a week or so we have to take the lane lines out at night and put them back in the morning (so the pool can be vacuumed). This is a job that is SUPPOSED to be done by the freshman and sophomores. Now like I said, it's not a huge problem but the past two years I did it. The other day at practice, two of the four people putting the lines in were upperclassmen. Why do you think you can just sit there and watch us?

Overall, seniority is going to be something you hate as a freshman and sophomore, but love once you become the big kids on campus.  Just remember if you don't want problems to ensue-respect your elders!