You finally reach senior year, powering through the fall, working hard to turn in all your college applications on time, while showing off all your academics to your best fit. As the winter approaches, you’re excited to celebrate your accomplishments and have fun with the rest of the senior class for a few days on the Quebec ski trip. While you’re packing your belongings onto the bus, you pass by a group of juniors, hoping to have just as much fun as you.

This is a special 4-day trip initially planned to give the seniors a break and allow them to continue making memories together for their last few months of high school before graduation. Juniors joining the trip steal from the magic of the senior trip and disrupt the flow. When juniors reach their senior year, they can take part in the ski trip for their grade and shouldn’t have to worry about students from other grades invading their trip.

Juniors shouldn’t be allowed to join the trip because it takes away available spots from the seniors. Knowing this is primarily a senior trip, every available spot matters. Seniors should not have to worry about it being taken from someone of a lower grade who will have another opportunity to go the following year, something seniors now will not have the opportunity of.

There is only one opportunity a year to go, therefore going the year before decreases the excitement for the following year. After all, you already know what to expect.

Seniors want to connect for their last year together before going their separate ways. With younger people joining the trip, there is less room for just the seniors to become closer to one another and branch out. These four days in January are specifically picked days for seniors to bond as one united grade. This may not align with the priorities of juniors who are still navigating high school. The dynamic of the trip would be better suited for groups of students who share similar interests and experiences.
When juniors join the trip it disrupts the already established social dynamics of seniors, making the whole point of bonding, pointless.
The 14-hour drive to Quebec, Canada to ski/snowboard for four straight days with classmates that you’ve gone to school with for four to 13 years, should be something you wait patiently for and only feel once because it is such a rare opportunity.
This is only a four-day trip, four days that seniors should be able to band together as a class and grow closer to one another without the interference of another grade that will just experience the same thing the following year.