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Thursday, April 12, 2018

Is Senior Seminar Fulfilling It's Purpose?

By September Brockett
April 12th, 2018 - Greenville, New York
Opinion

So if you’re friends with a senior or if you are a senior you might hear a lot about Senior Seminar and for the most part… it’s all bad things. Most will argue that senior seminar goes over things too late for the seniors, like the unit about college. By the time the class is done writing their essays for college, it's almost too late to submit it or you are being very rushed. Because so many seniors don’t like the addition of senior seminar I decided to have a word with Mr. Hilgendorff, one of the main people who decided to introduce senior seminar to Greenville’s curriculum.
Mr. H decided to introduce this class when he “realized that seniors had a lot of time in their schedule that could be filled with something that would help them in college and life.” There was a lot of work that went into introducing senior seminar, The idea was introduced at a board meeting in the 2015-2016 school year and the class wasn’t actually added to seniors schedules until the 2016-2017 year. “Based on the feedback from multiple people… Senior seminar might be split so that it is in the second half of junior year and the first half of senior year.” Mr. H stated after hearing from multiple students and the previous senior seminar teacher that some of the components of Senior Seminar are being addressed at a time that it is almost too late for the seniors to learn or do.
While most teachers think that senior seminar is important and that it benefits the seniors in many ways, seniors see it more as a chore and that its an annoying class. Most of the seniors already finish the things that they need to do for college before it is addressed in Senior Seminar. Not to mention that most of the topics that we go over in Senior Seminar are covered in economics prior to Senior Seminar.


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