To students winter break means two weeks of relaxation and fun, snow, hot chocolate, fires, and family. It is a time for you to just forget about school and all the work that goes with it and just focus on pretty much nothing... it's two weeks for your brain to just sit inside your head and give you the power to breathe and eat, but no more is really necessary.
To teachers however, winter break is a disaster. Kids brains go on vacation for two weeks and just die... they can't have that happen. They think that if we go veg for two weeks we will forget everything we were ever taught in our entire lives. So they feel the need to pile on the work over the break so that we have at least enough to do something everyday... because apparently we don't make other plans. It's funny too because I am the type of person who leaves everything until the very last second (like tomorrow I have a quiz on my US History reading that I've done none of). So my last day of break is going to be devoted to doing mounds and mounds of homework, projects, and general studying.
Don't you know? Every minute you spent outside of a classroom your brain loses two minutes worth of information learned. That's why lunch is so short.
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