The times of our lives.

Grade 12, The Time of our Lives

   Grade 12, “The time of people’s lives”, right? Where everyone in the school has there eyes on them. They are looked up to by the grades below, expected to be the most mature in the school. The pressures are light: good grades are expected, plans for future assumed to be in place, while all at the same time they have to withhold there social lives and juggle homework, and studying for exams that are only worth a minor 40% of there grade. The grades witch was once theres, are assumed childish, and inferior, always in the way in the hallways. If 12ers have the misfortune of having friends in grades below, they have all 3 grades worth of drama, fighting, and bickering, to listen to.  Even the people in the grade bicker amongst themselves. Some 12’ers leave early to go to there already planned out lives, leaving the others behind, contemplating how unorganized there own lives are. The pressure of leaving the safe place of the school system, that has housed them since they were young, and leaving into the real world, where none of these “pleasures” acure.  It’s not hard to see how it is clearly, the best times of our life.

- Kris Marsel