Vacations During School
By: Kolten Wragge
Throughout the school year many students at Pierce High take vacations. While vacations are fun and give students a break from school, they can hurt students by getting them behind on crucial schoolwork.
Veteran teacher Deb Koehlmoos had great things and bad things to say about student vacations.
“Well I think anytime you can be with your family and spend time together and get away it clears your head and it's great. And that's why I think it's good we have little breaks every so often throughout the year to give the kids a break and give back and to spend time with family and friends. I also think it definitely affects school work because there is something to be said for being here and hearing it you can copy notes from someone but if you are not here for the activities and you are not hearing them it definitely affects them the more they are gone and you just have to be diligent about getting prepared before you go and being prepared to put in extra time when you get back,” Koehlmoos said.
Ten students were interviewed about the vacations that they went on–five boys and five girls. The girls all seemed to really enjoy their vacations and were more prepared for the school they were going to miss.
“Missing school for me benefited my morale because it made me not have to worry about school and then it necessarily didn't negatively affect my school work because I got all my homework done before and I asked teachers lots of questions,” sophomore Emelyn Unseld said.
Another student said that the fun of the vacation was almost canceled out by the extra school work.
“I think missing school overall kind of just benefited my overall just like health and like happiness because like everyone really doesn't like school a whole ton but like getting a whole week off like I did, and I went and had fun with family and friends. It was just fun to be out of school but the school work I almost most of my teachers gave it to me so I did a bunch of it while I was gone, but it was still hard to make up. So it's fun to get out of school, but the makeup work almost canceled it out,” junior Cooper Collins said.
From all the students who responded every student said that vacations were super fun and the best thing they could have done with their time, but the homework while they were gone piled up and almost ruined the fun of their trip.
While vacations during school can be a blast, parents and students should try to stray away from missing school because they miss out on valuable learning experiences and are forced to go through tough learning experiences on their own.
