I feel like many people will agree on this subject of having the day off from school and work after New Year’s. People are always up late either from just staying up for the ball to drop, traveling back home from different places, and or going out and drinking feeling sick in the morning. 

Some people would just tell you to go to bed earlier on New Year’s to make up for the lack of sleep, but I don’t really think that’s how it works. You could go to bed early and still be exhausted in the morning. Junior at Oakmont, Amelia Garlock says, “ I got back from Connecticut around 7 pm and when I got home I had to do a bunch of stuff to get ready for school in the morning and catch up on some work. I didn’t get to go to bed as early as I hoped, and when I woke up I did, in fact, not want to go to school. All I could think about was going back to bed.” This seems to be the case a lot.

 Mark Nevard, English teacher and more says, “ I think we used to have the day off in the past. I would entertain the idea of having the day off again, but this year I wouldn’t because we had such a long Christmas break, and I liked getting Thursday and Friday out of the way.” I do somewhat agree with this quote because we did have a long enough break but I found it very inconvenient that we had to go back to school for 2 days just to have the weekend after. 

Many people would like this because we should have a day to prepare for school and work after a long night. A lot of people are rushing around to get stuff ready like work, supplies, and stuff like that. So tell me, would you like that day off?