Stevenson Swine 09

The Swine Flu, as we all know, is an epidemic sweeping the nation. Sure, it is affecting all of us physically but let's stop and look at it sociologically. Stevenson has trained us to believe that we should put education before everything, maybe even health. Students at Stevenson are stressed over their grades so much that they bringing themselves to school so they don't fall behind but they are putting others at risk of catching their sickness. I would know because even though I am definitely too sick to come to school, I did. Why you ask? It's because I simply couldn't fall behind in class anymore; I had three tests and 3 quizzes to make up after missing 5 periods of one day and one full day the next. How ridiculous is that? Not to mention, I had to cut down on my resting time so that I could do all my late homework and copy down class notes. I gave into the Stevenson expectation of all being on top of things and came to school, putting myself and their's health in harm's way. I learned that last Wednesday (November 4, 2009) 27% of our school was absent. I joined a facebook group that day that had over 40 Stevenson Juniors who had stayed home that day because of illness. Stevenson needs to learn that their students can't go on anymore. It needs to close for a week to recover. Our society is so competitive on its "perfect atendance" or individualism that it's not regarding the health out what makes up most of it. It is insame.