It’s your last day of school before you go home for break, your giddy, optimistic, and nothing but ready for this break to start and then you remember you have a ton of homework to do. Teacher after teacher has given you pages to read, questions to answer, and projects to complete. The point of a break is to have some time off from doing assignments but it seems like now breaks are just a way for teachers to give students work because they think that they will have ton of time. So as I walk out of school my demeanor begins to turn from happiness to dread as I prepare to take on the demon known as homework.

Breaks are for relaxing, rewinding, and just taking a little time for yourself but that is impossible to do when every teacher on your schedule has given you an assignment. Every break is different but one thing they all have in common is that the sole purpose of them is to take time to be ready to get back to school. You might as well call breaks mini-homeschooling sessions because that is what it feels like.

When the clock strikes 3:45 the hallways fill with students who are ready to go and start their break but how much fun can they really have with all of this school work. Do teachers have schoolwork to do over breaks? No. Teachers have a paid break and students get a break paid with schoolwork. Where is the justice in that. Teachers think that they are doing the students a favor because they want students to not forget what they learned before break but in reality they are just causing us stress.

High school is already hard enough. We have eight classes, 2,000 students, 11 floors, and not to mention the problems we have to face as teenagers. So why don’t teachers want to give students the much needed break that they deserve? Teachers are humans and sometimes humans think that they are helping but in reality they are hurting us. Our brains need a break. We are at school for a little over 7 hours a day and we only get two day breaks in between, so now when we are supposed to get a week long break we still have work to do.

Breaks can be used to see family, hang out with friends, and travel to new places, but none of that could ever be accomplished with the overloading of homework that we get. No matter if it is spring break, summer break, winter break, or fall break everyone deserves a little time of from working and I wish our teachers would be able to understand that.