If there is one thing all high schoolers can relate to, it’s the stress, sleep deprivation, and overwhelming schedules that high school brings to the table.

Luckily, with Lincoln’s efforts to include FLEX into the school’s schedule, it’s been easier for students to handle their daily work. However this year, the administration cut multiple FLEX days due to a low attendance issue among upperclassmen.

Erin Dornan, a freshman new to the experiences of high school, is one student that feels upset with the school’s lack of communication with the issue.

While many aspects of FLEX have been extremely helpful to Dornan’s schedule, she wasn’t alone in her frustration when learning that Lincoln would be limiting the FLEX periods this year. She reported that her friends reacted in the same way.

“I was annoyed that we were weren’t going to be getting as much time to work on homework because I have lots of after school activities which means I don’t have as much time to do homework at home,” Dornan said.

Dornan was mostly frustrated when she heard the loss of FLEX days was traced back to a low attendance issue among seniors.

“I heard that they were either not using their time well in FLEX or they were skipping school or they just [weren’t] getting enough school hours,” said Dornan.

Dornan also feels that the school’s lack of communication about the issue was a main source of her frustration.

“I don’t think they communicated very well because I didn’t hear about it from them, I heard about it from my friends.”

The worst part was that Dornan knew that this change was going to directly impact her in and outside of school.

“I think it will affect my life… by making me more stressed out because I know that I don’t have as much time to work on homework and do important things like that.”

Dornan expressed what she wished the school did to handle this issue instead, “I wish the school would take away the seniors FLEX days or the people who aren’t getting enough hours instead of the whole school.”

“I just don’t think it’s fair,” said Dornan, “that one grade level should affect all of us.”