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One thing I didn’t do during reading week
It’s like when Frosted Flakes claims to be part of a nutritious breakfast
In public school, that long endless gap between Christmas break and summer vacation is tolerable, thanks to snow days, P.A. days and Easter weekend.
But in university, there are no more snow days.
You’ll never get a Friday off because of a P.A. day.
And Easter weekend isn’t until after the last day of lectures. Yes, it means university students are being robbed. If there isn’t any school missed, it doesn’t officially count as a holiday.
Only March break survived the Public School Holiday Massacre. But first it had to go under the Vacation Protection program. March break got a new name. And, uh, it isn’t in March anymore. Now it’s in the middle of February. And it’s called ‘reading week.’
It’s sort of like when Frosted Flakes claims to be part of a nutritious breakfast. Sure, it might be part of a nutritious breakfast. It’s just not the nutritious part.
Calling it ‘reading week’ just means the old March break got a facelift. An unexpected upgrade. And now we’re all just pretending that we’re, uh, reading.
Right.
Can winter cold expose maturity?
It was 25 below zero in Kitchener last week. If I was still in high school, it would have meant an Unofficial Snow Day: one of those days when it’s just too cold to stand at the bus stop. It’s a dream of every high school student. You walk into the kitchen one morning and [...]
It was 25 below zero in Kitchener last week. If I was still in high school, it would have meant an Unofficial Snow Day: one of those days when it’s just too cold to stand at the bus stop.
It’s a dream of every high school student. You walk into the kitchen one morning and your parents say, “School? Nah. Why not just take the day off?”
If that had ever happened, I would have been back in bed asleep even before their sentence was complete, not bothering to stop and wonder about the likelihood of both parents having had a mini-stroke at the same time. But in university, it’s suddenly not my life mission to miss as much school as possible.
It’s a change that I didn’t expect.
