Senior Skip Day

For Senior Skip Day our seniors get to decorate (aka vandalize) the rhetoric hall (but they have to clean it up later). They usually incorporate a theme when decorating each teacher's classroom.

This year's class began their decorating at the school entrance with a spray painted old car. Solo cups spelled out "Seen Yor" on the field fence.  Balloons and streamers were everywhere.  The door to the men's restroom was converted into a set of swinging saloon doors.

 

The math teacher I know best who recruited me to the school once mentioned to her class that she thought The Lego Movie was annoying. Her words may have sounded like treason to them, but they think everything (about her) is awesome, and they showed their love by decorating her room elaborately according to the Lego movie motif.

Mrs. Awesome's Math Class

Each teacher got a different theme.  One of my favorite's was the chemistry teacher's lab.  She once mentioned that she could not dance at all, so they wrapped the room in aluminum foil, added disco balls, techno lights, and put a periodic table dance mat on the floor with all sorts of chemistry puns around the room and hilarious signs on the walls and doors.  Now the chemistry teacher has to groove in her disco lab.  I did not have my phone with me when I visited the science teachers downstairs, so I do not have photos. :(

The men's restroom was converted into a saloon, and the girl's restroom was over-the-top in freaky haunted house decor.  Rubber duckies and slime filled each toilet.  Spiders and snakes were in the sinks. Toilets and sinks were lined in Seran wrap, and the handicapped stall even contained a dummy. It was a nightmare indeed.

Girls' restroom

The lobby area had a jungle theme with snakes covering the headmaster's assistant's desk.  The jungle area eventually led into an aquatic area.

Along the rhetoric hall they had pictures of each senior's mugshot glued to an animal or famous figure for the guys or to a flower for the ladies.  Each senior received an appropriate superlative.  The creativity expressed in these superlatives captured each student's passion and gifts. They were all hilarious and so much better than the standard superlatives we selected my senior year.
One of my brightest students is driven like no one else and has read extensively about cancer.  She will be majoring in medical engineering and then go to medical school where she will without a doubt become an oncologist.  So it is no surprise that she was named "most likely to cure cancer."  Another student wants to study marine biology and save endangered sea creatures.  Her superlative was "Most likely to save Willy".  Each superlative has a personal story which shows how well these students know each other.  Most of my females students are shown below.

After decorating the night before, seniors got to take the day off.  Leaders in the senior class organized all these decorating efforts and an elaborate cookout at a nearby lake.  No wonder they are failing to turn in homework assignments on time!  They've been having too much fun designing all these elaborate decorations.  They certainly are creative and responsible when it comes to activities they enjoy, however.  They finished off senior skip day by returning to the school to clean up all the mess they had created the night before so that we will be back to business as usual on Monday.  Well...the junk car was still at the front entrance when I came to work at school on Saturday so we'll see when that gets towed away.  Students, you sure do make me laugh.