Senior Year Woes

Once again the Philadelphia Military Academy has jerked the senior class out of another activity. First it was our senior class trip; now it's our senior prom. They told us that is was going to be at the Bellvue at Broad and Walnut, a very high-class area where the best of the best have their shindigs, but now we are combing the senior prom with the junior prom at Romano's Banquet Hall, nowhere near as nice as the Bellvue and in a neighborhood where...well let's just say it's not Broad and Walnut.

But my beef is not the location of the prom but why in the world they would combine our prom with the juniors'? I'm not saying there is anything wrong with the junior class, but how many seniors do you know want to have their prom with juniors'? The student council and our class representatives told us that not enough people paid their class dues, and therefore they had to change everything around.

Well, I have a couple of things to say about that. First of all some of the people who didn't pay their dues probably just don't have $260 to give away like that, and for the people who do have it who can blame them for not giving it up. We were promised a class trip and now we have nothing; our prom is going to be combined with the junior prom! Why would anybody give a school that type of money when they are getting very little in return?

Another thing our class could have done is had way more fundrasiers than they did. Selling pretzels and soda two days a week ain't nothing compared to what other schools are doing, such as fashion shows and talent shows. It's just a shame to see our senior year go down the drain like this, but oh well it's nothing we can do, so we just have to deal with it.

By Jon Mason