A Fresh Take on Spring Break

At Southern University A&M College, students were shocked to find out the spring break will only be a couple of days this school year. This has caused many students to be frustrated due to a lack of actual breaks during this semester that weren’t instigated by natural disaster..
In the previous years, students usually had spring break for a week. Having that weekly break allowed students to relax for a while, go out on vacations, go back home and spend time with their family etc.
Having a two-day break diminishes all of those things. The shortened break was caused by starting school late from a COVID-19 surge during the beginning of the year. In my opinion, I believe that it is frustrating to only have a two days break from class because of how challenging this spring semester has been so far.
The difficulties come from teachers not always having class, the amount of work that they have been giving, multiple purges this semester, and lack of help from a tutor for any class that I consider “Challenging.” Also, because of COVID, there haven’t been as many activities/events for students to attend as I expected, which makes school really boring.
I think that us students should have an extra day or two for a break so that we can relax a bit and reflect on how each of us individually have been doing in school. It will benefit all students that have been struggling in class and need to take a break so that they can get on the right track.
It will also be beneficial for students to just settle down and develop a better mental health state for those that have been very stressed out. For example, if you’re a student and you’re struggling to keep your grades up from so much work in all of your classes, having a longer spring break will allow you to receive some time and wind down from all the stressful assignments.
Even if school started late, we students shouldn’t have to pay for that with the time we normally have scheduled for mental decompression. . In conclusion, the two-day spring break is really unsatisfying and doesn’t give the students enough time to relax, go on a vacation, or even spend time with family, which may very well lead to lacking performance in the classroom as we enter the home stretch of the year.