From My Perspective

May 10, 2010 • Victoria Harshaw  
Filed under Features, Opinion

Let’s see here. Getting home late from a sporting event. Going to sleep at eleven or twelve if you have homework. Waking up in the morning to go to class at 5:30? This is what most zero hour students do every other day. Zero hour is class you can take before school starts; it can be taken as an extra class or you can go home early and skip your last block. Personally, I think zero hour is a killer, but can also be very beneficial. I have experienced zero hour in two different ways. The first semester I took an extra class, which means I stayed the whole day. I would advise not do that; the day gets extremely long. The second semester I dropped my fourth block and got to go home early. This is nice when you have an after school sport. You can go home take a nap or finish your homework. If you are going to take a zero hour class some time in the future, make sure you know what time the class actually begins. For the first half of the second semester I thought class started at six thirty-five. After getting a slip from the office saying I had five tardies and was assigned a detention, I realized the actual class time starts at six thirty. It’s nice being able to go home early, but waking up and actually getting to zero hour is a whole different story. Hearing my alarm go off at five fifteen, I think to myself where did the night go? Or hearing your mom wake you up at the time your class starts asking, “Aren’t you supposed to be at school?” You look at your clock realizing you set your alarm for five fifteen p.m. This has happened to me way too many times. If I didn’t have an enjoyable class I probably would have already dropped zero hour. I just couldn’t find myself to do that though. I would miss seeing Mrs. O’s beautiful face every other morning in Leadership for Life.

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