We are down to the last week of school that matters. Teachers are finalizing grades, students are getting all work turned in, and everyone is ready to not have to wake up at 6:30 AM every day for 3 months.

For the people graduating, never again will they have to deal with waking up for school. Instead, they’ll be waking up for a job or they’ll be waking up for college, but never again will they have to stress and worry about 4 years of high school. They will never have to see the people who made going to school horrible, like mean kids, annoying kids, mean teachers, slow Chromebooks, crowded bathrooms, crowded hallways, and metal detectors because the people at school can’t be trusted to the point where our “personal safety” was questioned. We also got banned from stores and we kept worrying, because always in the back of our minds, we wondered if our school would be next on the news.

Hooray for the class of 2024! You’ve made it this far, maybe you’re willing to go a little further.