In my free time, I love to talk in a really sarcastic tone about things that get on my nerves as I joke by saying, “I love walking up the business stairwell and seeing people eating each other’s mouths,” and, “I want to spend the day with Kim Kardashian and Herman Cain.”

Sadly, this seems to be one of the only ways to deal with the “foolishness of high school.”

For many students, school does not end at 2:10 p.m. After returning home from school, often after an extracurricular or session with a teacher, the average student usually spends a few more hours doing homework and studying for tests.

And then there are those who actually have jobs and their days end even later. After all this, many kids, if lucky, can make it to bed around 11 p.m. and wake up feeling like a truck hit them.

The point is, education at this level is taxing and many times overwhelming, and as Thanksgiving approaches, one thing I am super thankful for a much needed break.

But it is not really going to be a break.

One of my teachers, I cannot tell you who, gave my class an assignment in which we must discuss the pilgrims at the dinner table on Thanksgiving Day, take notes on the discussion, and later write a paper on it. Along with this, I have a load of work from other classes that will consume my “break.”

I am certain that the same is happening to most other students.

So, in the spirit of resentful sarcasm, I would just like to commend all the teachers who are assigning homework over Thanksgiving “break.”

It is a wonderful thing to tell Uncle Bob and Aunt Jane, “We cannot hang out because I have homework for Mr. Juju’s class.”

I love hearing guests bellow with laughter in the other room while I spend my time laboring in front of the computer screen.

Out of my happiness, I have come up with a way to fight back. All students must come together and refuse to do their work until after the holiday “break.”

But, seeing as that will not work, we are back to square one. “I wish I could have Thanksgiving dinner with my teachers,” and “I am excitedly anticipating my Christmas ‘break’ homework.”