The holiday season brings many beautiful things: colorful lights, delicious treats, and family reunions. One thing many forget about until a 19 or 20-year-old comes into your high school classroom is how many alumni visit during the holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s never the people who have been gone for more than one or two semesters either. It\u2019s usually a student who has just finished the first or second semester of their prestigious college, walking back into the halls of their high school, probably saying something like: \u201cIt looks the same as I left it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What do alumni visits serve anyway? We don\u2019t learn anything from them. In fact, you\u2019re interrupting our classes when you come in. This isn\u2019t a movie where you go and hug your teacher and tell them how much your life has changed in the past 5 months. Your teachers definitely forgot your name \u2013 and if they remembered it, it wasn\u2019t for a good reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, alumni: just stop visiting. If you have so much \u201chigh school pride\u201d then just accept the fact that you peaked at a young age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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