The longest day of the year
All right guys, it’s the last day of school before SPRING BREAK!!!!! I’m SO excited! Now all I have to do is sit through one more day of school before I can be sitting on the beach sipping some fruity beverage out of a coconut and just soaking up the sun.
Or maybe not.
It’s a common occurrence for teachers to schedule tests and papers and quizzes and pretty much anything else you can think of for the last day before break. In fact, it happens so often that even the teachers themselves realize how much work we have to do. Yet they still pile it on.
Now is that fair? We get so completely overloaded with studying and writing that eventually even the best student will make exceptions here and there. “Well, I don’t really have time to write more about this so I’ll just stop here,” or, “I really have to study for history now, I guess I’ll have to give up on math for tonight.” How can we be expected to do our best work when there’s just not enough time to do it?
Not to mention focusing. My friends and I are counting down the hours left until school gets out. No one feels like doing anything at all right now. So how are we supposed to be able to focus and study for our tests if the only thing that’s really on our minds is how much fun we’re going to be having in just a few short hours? (There are about four hours left to go as I write this, but who’s counting?)
So, really, I think that we shouldn’t be expected to take tests and turn in papers at all today. It’s just not fair to anyone really. I mean, how am I supposed to memorize the rest of my flowcharts and figure out what I’m going to pack for California? It’s too much!
Jessica Stark