Why Even Bother With An Extra Day?

                Three day weekends used to be so amazing- the thrill of one more adventurous day, that feeling of euphoria after sleeping in one more day, an extra day to not eat school lunch. And then you grow up, and you start taking harder and harder courses, you get a job, you start paying bills. Your schedule fills up quickly with things you need to do, or have to do- but very rarely is your schedule filled with wants and desires. Somehow amongst all this chaos growing up brings, you are expected to do your homework, make it to work on time, memorize scripts for plays, musicals, and the like. Yet on three day weekends those of us who have zero free time, who would love to just lay around and do nothing all day long- we finally get the chance to catch up on sleep and talk to our friends. At least, that’s what we try to tell ourselves will happen on our extra day off. The reality of the situation: that third day is even busier than all of the other days of the week.

                I find it interesting that teachers assume that because we have no school on Monday, we should have time to do extra homework. I mean really, it’s quite convenient for them- it opens up time in class for even more work, and pushes the rest of the day’s assignments to the weekend. Just in case any teachers happen to read this, an extra day off of school should be spent, I don’t know, AWAY from school or school-like activities. Just because we have an extra day does NOT in any way mean we have an extra day to do homework. That’s not how this works, teachers. For some of us, we work on that Monday. Some of us have family visiting on that Monday. Some of us have rehearsals; others of us have plans with friends.

                I personally have a ton of homework this three day weekend- and believe it or not I actually have less time than I usually do on weekends to get all this homework done. Why didn’t I do it Friday night, you might ask. I was at school all day, then speech rehearsal, then work- I didn’t get home until 10:30 that night. Saturday? I was up at four in the morning to go to a speech competition, then came home and had to babysit. Sunday afternoon I am able to do homework (just like normal weekends), but I work Sunday night- and then family is coming tomorrow.

                Just because we have a three day weekend does NOT mean we have more time for more homework. If anything, teachers should lay off the homework so that we might actually enjoy the fact that we have a three day weekend. Think twice before you assign a bunch of pointless assignments next time, teachers. It would be much appreciated.

 

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