Homework, No Thanks

So it’s around 11 pm as I’m struggling to get through all my assignments this Thursday night.  It’s not just any Thursday.  Its the Thursday before this Friday, which is the last day before spring break officially starts.  I would like to personally thank all of my teachers for cramming every single class lesson, homework assignment, and chapter exam into these past 4 days, making kids more stressed than they have ever been before.  To be honest, even though I have never received so much work in this year before, the thought of having a week off school pushes me through the seven hour school days.  However, there is one thing, yes just one thing, that can completely ruin a student’s spring break.  Getting homework over the break.

Why call it a break when I still have to answer questions on World War II and look up vocabulary that will just go in the trash after I get those scrawny little 10 points.  According to a fellow student in my history class it doesn’t really matter to him because he won’t even touch it and clearly won’t think about it during the week we have off.  “Of course you’ll have homework, you guys are AP students.”  Apparently to my teacher AP students don’t deserve a break and can handle the extra amount of curriculum.  If kids are just going to cheat and find the easiest way to make it seem like they took the time to do the assignment, why give it?  Sophia Rivera, a current high school student believes that “the point of a break is to take a break from school, the stress, the homework, the testing.  So why would it be logical to give students homework over the break?”  She strongly thinks that it is a time to relax and revive for the next long stretch of school. A not so good way to come back is with a classroom that loathes you and stayed up until 2 am because they didn’t start their over the break homework until that night.  It is much better to come back with a class fully rested and ready to learn.