Here, at Tahoma High School, there is a fun activity to participate in called “Senior Assassin”. Senior Assassin is a fun activity that only Seniors can join, with this they are given the opportunity to use their connections and logic to hunt down and assassinate another senior, while also having to watch their back from being assassinated as well. There is a rulebook that must be followed on how to properly assassinate another senior safely and respectfully. Assassination can be done with any toy; water guns, nerf guns, or toy swords made out of safe material. If you are the last senior standing, you receive a prize fund of $1000.

A few seniors at Tahoma High School who participated in Senior Assassin were; Josh Hare and Claire Bonte. Bonte was given the chance to assassinate her person and be assassinated, while Hare got to assassinate his person in the comfort of knowing that the person who had him was already eliminated. They were both asked a few questions about their time being apart of the activity.

The first question was asking them why they decided to join Senior Assassin in the first place. Hare responded with, “I joined Senior Assassin because I thought it would be a lot of fun and $1000 sounds pretty nice too”, he continued, “It’s been a senior tradition I’ve seen at Tahoma for the last few years and I’ve seen the other classes do it, it always looks like a good time” (Hare). Bonte simply answered, “I joined Senior Assassin to be apart of a fun activity with my other seniors” (Bonte).

The second question wondering how it felt to be assassinated- mostly for Bonte. Bonte expressed that “it felt bad to be assassinated because [her] assassin was not playing the game fairly and the people running the event disregarded the rules” (Bonte). Hare proudly gloated about how “great [he] feel[s]” that he has not been assassinated (Hare).

The third question highlighting on how it felt to assassinate. Hare admitted that “[he] felt bad because it was one of [his] friends and [he] kind of set them up”, he quickly convinced himself saying, “you gotta do what you gotta do for the money” (Hare). Bonte enlightened the audience by announcing, “it felt rewarding to assassinate someone because you have to use your observation and sleuthing skills to catch someone”, although she went deeper when remarking, “I felt a little bad that I got someone wet but overall it was fun” (Bonte).

The fourth and fifth questions seeked to know whether these two found the $10 fee to be a fair amount to enter and what they would do with the $1000 prize fund if they were to win it. Hare instantly declared, “$10 is worth it because I’m going to be making a lot more in the long run”, also declaring, “I mean, I am going to win” (Hare). Bonte stated that “yes, [she] thinks [$10] is a fair amount” (Bonte). Bonte went on to say that if she were to win the prize fund “[she] would put the prize money towards college and traveling expenses” (Bonte). Hare went into a deeper dive and claimed, “I owe a few people some money for staying quiet and the I also owe someone to lunch” but overall he would, “just save it for college” (Hare).

Senior Assassin can be a fun way of making friends or friendly enemies, while heightening your sneaky spy skills and hunting down someone you may be very close with, or not even know. In a safe setting, Tahoma High School allows the Senior Assassin tradition to live on.