Senior skip day could be described as an unofficial holiday for seniors. Senior skip day is a tradition celebrated at Arrowhead, along with other high schools, that involved seniors choosing a day to take off school. One day every school year, seniors decide on a date that they will all not attend school. Teachers are all aware of the students skipping on the day, says Mrs. Sirianni, who works at the North Campus office. Sirianni says “Yeah, I know and the other teachers know they’re going to skip no matter what we do.”

Students use senior skip day as a day to take off and relax or do whatever they want to do. Some seniors, however, don’t skip on senior skip day.

Philipp Zabel, a senior at Arrowhead, said, “I didn’t skip because I have class and I feel as if it’s more important.”

Senior skip day is a tradition that is practiced at many American high schools. According to Wikipedia, some schools encourage ditch day, and will even help the students pick a day that will avoid them missing quizzes, or tests. Meanwhile, other schools will give students who skip punishments for purposefully missing school. These schools will assign detentions for those who ditch, leading less students to follow through. Arrowhead doesn’t punish students for skipping school on senior skip day.

According to Wikipedia, Senior skip day originated in the 1970s, and became extremely popular after the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”

Tomas Artiles, a senior at Arrowhead who took part in senior skip day says, “Senior skip day is my favorite day of the year. Me and some friends went to the beach this year and just hang out. It was fun.”

Tessa Quadracci, a senior at Arrowhead who also took part in senior skip day says, “I love senior skip day. It’s something for almost every senior to look forward to. My parents don’t really like the whole idea of it, but I don’t care.”

Senior skip day can be used for a variety of things. Some seniors, like Adrienne Race use senior skip day to catch up on missing work or extra credit, Race says “This year I stayed home all day and worked on my missing assignments for about 4 hours. I felt so good when I got back to school because I was almost caught up on everything.”

Students also spend their day off by hanging out with friends. Kyle Lipske who spent his ditch day at the movies.

Lipske says, “Me and some buddies saw ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ and then got ice cream after”

According to Wikipedia, Senior skip day is an ongoing tradition that has been carried out for a little over 45 years.