As most of us know already, the summer is short enough as it is. After a long, challenging school year of waking up before the roosters do, many of us sleep in until at least 12:00 and miss out on most of the day. Sophomore year has started for me already, but I can remember sitting in my freshman classrooms like it was a few weeks ago. On top of the summer being way to short already, teachers feel the need to give us huge packets to complete and a book to read over the summer. This sort of Summer school work is wrong and unfair to students.

The first and obvious reason is because summer is supposed to be a break from school. Summer only lasts about 8 weeks, and for most students, it takes a week or more to complete all of their summer school work. That is at least 1/8 of the summer gone because students have to worry about school work on their so called “break” from school.

Also, summer school work has a major impact on students’ grades to start the school year. Many students do not achieve the grades that they deserve in school during the first marking period because they don’t do their summer school work. A student who earns an A once classes begin can end up with a B or C for first marking period simply because of the impact that summer work has on their grades. Summer school work has way too much of an impact on students’ grades.

The final reason that I think summer school work is unfair to students is because, whether they do their summer school work or not, it stresses students out. If students do their summer school work, they are stressed out because they have to take time away from their summer break to do their summer school work. However, if students don’t do their summer school work, they are stressed out because of the impact it is going to have on their first marking period grades. One way or the other, summer school work stresses out many students.

All in all, summer school work is unfair to students. It takes away from students’ summer break, has a major impact on students’ first marking period grades, and stresses out many students. Summer is supposed to be a break from school, but it takes many students a week or more to finish all of their summer school work. Summer school work is unfair to students, and should not be required.