I am in school to help myself and learn

for when I grow up. I don’t want to see

myself selling cabbage or borrowing

money or other things. I don’t want to see

my brothers suffering, especially Ronnie

because he is the last born and a loving

brother of my heart. I want him to live

a happy life and I want him to know that

he has a person who can take care of him.

I’m also learning to fill my promise that

I promised myself that whatever happens

I’ll work as hard as I can to help my

family. I am also in school for the sake

of other children. When I see children

outside eating dirty roots, sleeping in

dirty places, I usually feel pity for them

but I have no choice but to only leave

them there. Children usually suffer and

that’s why I learn in school, to help them.

WHY AM IN SCHOOL?

Why do we have FIVE days of work/school and only TWO days of time off?

I believe this is completely unfair. Five beats 2 by 3, that is a little TOO much. There's only 48 hours of time off, while there's 120 hours of sweat and peer pressure and things you don't want to do...6 hours everyday (for school, probably more time for work) for 5 days, and 6x5 is 30. 30 stinking hours of sweat and hard work. For the past 2 weeks, we've only had 3 days of school due to canceled days, and even that's a little too long, BUT, 3 days seems like the perfect amount of days for school and work, not 5. I mean, to me it's just so baffling how it's not a fair competition. 5 days of school, only 2 days of freedom-it's like freedom doesn't even have a chance!
Why is this like this, and how many days do you think we need of school/work and how many days for freedom, remember, we can't split it up equally....Unfortunately.
Thanks and have a great day, Blessings!

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Well, school around the world seem to have lots of school days and only short breaks, except for summer vacation, where you get a few months off.

When you enter the work force, you can kiss that 'few months off' thing goodbye. Most employees in the United States only get around two weeks of paid vacation per year. Senior employees might get slightly more, and new hires, well, they are lucky if they get two weeks off a year.

Some European countries are quite different. I do not know what is behind the 'American way' of working employees to such extents. In some of the Scandinavian countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark), well, employees *do* get around 8 weeks or 2 months of paid vacation per year in their work lives. It makes for happier, more relaxed, and more productive employees.

I think that the USA sort of fell into the 'capitalism trap'. Not that capitalism is a bad model (although it might be), but society took it so far. Now the thought-pattern that seems to be drummed so loudly is "You must WORK for what you want. You MUST devote your entire life to work so that you can purchase material items. Nothing else matters !"

All that mindset does is make the mega-corporations richer and richer ... while you, the worker, are working your a$$ off and never really have time to enjoy any of those lovely material items that the media has convinced you that you 'need'. ;)

Actually, nowadays, when you enter the workforce, you might find that you cannot even get 40 hours a week for a 'full-time' job. Corporations are starting to keep hours low (to increase their own profits). Of course, in your 32-hour work week, which probably will include you working 5 days a week anyway, you *will* be expected to do as much work as you would have had to do in the past in a 40-hour work week.

Best solution ?

Run for Congress, i.e. try to become a Senator or a House Representative.
Check out what they get:

- They only work about 140 days a year. (and short days at that).
- They make about $ 180,000 per year (and vote themselves a raise every year).
- They have a private health insurance program. (No 'Obamacare' for them, nu-uh).
- They have a private pension waiting for them.
- They are set for life. They are the 'power elite'. They are the 1%.

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Also, there's kind of a way to look at it mathematically. You say it is 'unfair' to have work or school 5 days a week. The problem with that argument is ... you're not at work or school for the entire day. :)

There are (7 x 24) = 168 hours per week

Yes, you attend school for say 6 hours a day, so that's 30 hours a week. I'll tack on 8 more hours for travel time to and from school.

So that's 38 hours = (38/168) = 22.6% of your week. (Not as much as you might have thought, huh?) Yes, I understand that you have to do homework, which adds some hours.

OK. Then you sleep for say 8 hours a day.
That's (8 x 7) = 56 hours of the week, or (56/168) = 33.3% of your week.

So, check it out ... how much 'free time' is left? even after school hours and sleeping?

100% - 22.6% - 33.3% = (100% - 55.9%) = 44.1%

Do you see? Even after all your school hours and stuff 5 days a week, and your 8 hours of sleep every night, you *still* have almost one-half of the total hours in a week to do whatever you want to do !!
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