It's that magical time of year for certain high school students

• Students who haven't attended all year and you're just now seeing for the first time, asking what they can do to pass

• Students who are attempting to turn in months worth of work in one day

• Students who have never participated or spoken two words suddenly start talking (half are politely asking in vain what to do to save their grade, half are cussing up a storm)

• Students who were doing fine two months ago and thus decided to stop trying altogether. So now they're suddenly failing with no time to fix it

• Students who are just now (after 4 years of reminders) realizing that they are too many credits short to graduate and are panicking

• Students who see the writing on the wall and have stopped coming to school at all