Are you or another student at GlenOak High School wondering if you qualify for the junior or senior option?
Junior and senior options are blocks or periods that allow students in 11th and 12th grade to leave the building if they qualify for the application. Option can only be provided during the period a student has a study hall.
The district considers junior or senior option as a privilege. It can be taken as quickly as it is given. Students have to meet the requirements to get option and their option can be taken for consequence.
First, if a student has any educational debts, either themselves or their parents need to pay those off before applying for junior or senior options.
Secondly, the minimum requirement of a student’s GPA needs to be 2.5 or higher and if you are credit deficient, you need to complete credit recovery for the failed course(s) to be accepted. However, if your GPA lowers after being appointed option it will not be revoked.
If a student endures any disciplinary referrals, their option can be taken as a repercussion. In addition, students will have the chance to earn it back with good behavior.
Furthermore, if a student has option they need to leave the building when they are supposed to because in case of an emergency they will not be accounted for.
Nevertheless, students’ options can not depend on their work hours and can only be served during study halls and “free periods.”
One confusion over senior and junior options is that students are allowed to leave and return for lunch. No student, regardless of their option standing, is allowed to leave and return for lunch. Only students who have a senior option during fifth period should be leaving”,“but they should not be returning to school until the beginning of 6/7.
Ultimately, the junior and senior option has immensely lowered GlenOak High School’s truancy and absentee rates, according to academy principal Lewis Adkins.
Students enjoy the option period as a time for them to relax at home.
“I have option during sixth and seventh period, I enjoy my option,” junior Gianna Marazza said. “I go home, eat, do my homework, get ready and go to work.”
