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Spring apathy hard to avert

 
By Bryan Painter | Published: March 27, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

I've focused easier in a fog, in a rain storm, even when a childhood buddy stirred up the wasps and pursued me.

It was easier for me to focus in each of those situations than during the stretch from spring break to the end of the school year.

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To this day, I see the blue sky and feel the sun's warmth coming through that window in my afternoon spring semester political science class in college. That was 22 years ago.

Anyone else remember that pain of being in class when so much was going on outside? Does anyone still suffer that pain?

You'll have to answer the first question yourself. But high school counselor Sandra Rose, longtime university educator Terry Clark and high school student Ben Bible helped me with the latter.

A cure for ‘senioritis'
Counselor Sandra Rose has worked at Emerson Alternative Education Center for more than 30 years.

She's seen the scenario over and over and over.

"Sometimes they get senioritis and they just lose their minds temporarily,” she said. "They see the light at the end of the tunnel and they don't want to step forward to reach it.”

So Rose is more than willing to give them a nudge.

The first day after spring break, she had three or four seniors who did not show up for school.

If they continue as no-shows she mails a certified letter to their parents saying, "If your son or daughter does not complete this course, they will not receive a diploma in May.”

What if they are in class, but still really not there?

"I send letters to those parents too,” she said.

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