Senior plus credit recovery is a program for students who weren’t able to earn enough credits to graduate on time.

The majority of the students at Morton East are on track to graduate on time. In a random survey of 100 Morton East students, 28 students reported not being on track to graduate. There are two sessions a day the first one is from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Only 30 students are accepted per session and if they miss more than 3 days they can be excluded from the program. In order to graduate the school requires 20 credits that are earned through the four years of high school. Each year the students should earn five credits or more, failing a class means no credits are earned and will need to be made up. They also offer night school for failing classes and each one costs $175.

“We only accept 60 students and they must be under 22 years old, all the other students stay on a waiting list until there’s an open space,” Elena Dragogiannis a teacher said.

There are only limited spaces and a certain amount of students they take in, it’s all base on the pace of students.

“It’s only December and 10 students have already graduated. It all depends on the student how many credits they need and how quickly they work,” Elena Dragogiannis said.

Some students are missing more credits than others so it’ll take them longer to finish while others might just be missing half a credit.

“I am a senior and failed two classes last year (math and history), so I had to pay for night school $175 for each class to be able to graduate on time,” an anonymous senior student said.

Many students prefer to pay this amount of money to not fall in the category of being a “senior plus”.

“This just extends the process of students to graduate on time when they could have been done with high school on time. But I understand that some students sometimes go through some difficult stuff that makes them not focus in school,” Sandro Rendon said.