This is a letter my funny little son, Matt wrote to his teacher; it's totally a crack up - you should read it all the way to the end.
"Dear Miss Miles,
I think that there shouldn't be any homework next week because it sucks time out of our afternoons. The afternoons these days are only 32% of our days, the other 68% being sucked up by school. Of course, if you give us homework, the percent of our time to play would be decreased. If that happened, we wouldn't do better in school. Of course, that's obviously bad for the both of us.
Another reason is that kids need their free time. Otherwise, well, they just wouldn't be kids anymore. They'd be more like captured animals. Kids would lose their "let's play" spirit and it would be replaced with a "I'm bored" spirit. We wouldn't play, be happy or find anything fun.
Another reason is because the day would go like this: get up, get dressed, eat breakfast, brush teeth, go to school, be at school until 2:15, go home, do homework, go to bed. Did you see any free time in there? I sure didn't. If the homework part was deleted, we would get 5 hours and 30 minutes of play time! I don't see anything wrong with that!
Another reason is that kids would have time to get something nice for his/her teacher. doesn't that sound great? Flowers, candy, fruit and anything you can think of! Awesome, huh? You'll need another desk to keep all of that stuff on!
Look, I know you say homework is important but can't it wait, just for a week? Think it over. You know where I am.
- Matt
"Dear Miss Miles,
I think that there shouldn't be any homework next week because it sucks time out of our afternoons. The afternoons these days are only 32% of our days, the other 68% being sucked up by school. Of course, if you give us homework, the percent of our time to play would be decreased. If that happened, we wouldn't do better in school. Of course, that's obviously bad for the both of us.
Another reason is that kids need their free time. Otherwise, well, they just wouldn't be kids anymore. They'd be more like captured animals. Kids would lose their "let's play" spirit and it would be replaced with a "I'm bored" spirit. We wouldn't play, be happy or find anything fun.
Another reason is because the day would go like this: get up, get dressed, eat breakfast, brush teeth, go to school, be at school until 2:15, go home, do homework, go to bed. Did you see any free time in there? I sure didn't. If the homework part was deleted, we would get 5 hours and 30 minutes of play time! I don't see anything wrong with that!
Another reason is that kids would have time to get something nice for his/her teacher. doesn't that sound great? Flowers, candy, fruit and anything you can think of! Awesome, huh? You'll need another desk to keep all of that stuff on!
Look, I know you say homework is important but can't it wait, just for a week? Think it over. You know where I am.
- Matt
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