Freshmen Study Hall at Darien High School

Contributed by Blair Pelley

The new freshman class has been denied the privilege of having frees during the second semester. The long, boring, no-talking- or-you-will- get-detention study halls are here to stay. Last year’s freshmen were promised frees second semester but when the second half of the year came around students' schedules didn’t change. The reason that the freshmen are stuck in their study halls is because the library was becoming overcrowded with the plethora of students flocking in second semester. The lack of tables and space to put backpacks has become the reason freshmen have been stripped of the promised frees. Back in the old days freshmen would get free periods after first semester if they obtained a letter grade better than a “C” in each class. But now no matter how good their grades are the freshmen class will be stuck in study hall. As a freshmen, I think a good compromise is having half frees and half study halls. This way the library wouldn’t be as crowded. But the freshman class has different opinions on having frees. Freshman Paxton Voigt said, “I hate it! It’s not fair that other grade got frees their second semester but we didn’t.” But other freshmen like Parker Hamill appreciate the full-year option. “I like having study halls; I actually get my work done.” Whether the freshmen class likes it or not, we will be sitting in silence for the rest of the year.