Every once in a while, students just need a break! We go a million hours a day (mine typically starts at 6 am and finishes around 11:30, although tonight will be later because I forgot to do this post! Silly, busy me.) and get very little sleep, proven in a post several days ago. Between school, extra-curricular activities, maintaining good grades and good standing with teachers, family time, work, and what little social life there is to be had in high school, there is just no time for relaxation!
School holidays provide some relief. Thanksgiving break was just two weeks ago and it took care of some serious stress. However, it seems to me that all teachers' minds work the same and right around holiday time they all get the same brilliant idea: "You know what? Those students are going to have (insert amount of school vacation here- ranging from three days to two weeks) with nothing to do! They will most likely sit around and waste the day pining to come back to school….. I should give them 6 books, 15 pages of arithmetic, and a science experiment so that they won't be so bored!"
NOOOOOOOOO! WE DON'T WANT IT!
Please, dear teachers, give us our break. School is hard. Clubs are hard. Work is hard. We need this break so that we don't break!
Since teachers don't seem to understand that a vacation is a time for relaxation and enlightenment- as well as a fairly large debate as to whether it is worth it or not to return to the dreaded school- students sometimes need to take matters in to their own hands. There is a very simple term I like to use for gaining control of my breaks and that is Ditch Day.
Today was a Ditch Day. I have been having reviews for finals in my college classes all week, I have had to get up insanely early to make it to all of my early morning classes (one of which is a high school course that goes in the morning because my credits are all full), and I just did not have it in me to go to all of class today. So, I went with my mom on a Ditch Day Adventure.
First, I came home after my early morning psychology class and did math homework. Lame, right? But, c'est la vie and I can't fall behind in math if I want any chance at maintaining my 3.9 GPA. Anyways, after math was finally finished, my mom came into my room and said that since I had been working so hard, I could take a day off! GO MOM!
We went down the canyon and she took me out to breakfast, then we drove around for a while and listened to Christmas music, and I got to end my relaxing Ditch Day with a nap before I went back for math class and a huge choir concert this evening. It pays to take matters into one's own hands when one's sanity is at risk.
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