Satire | What summer vacation when there is holiday homework to do?

The first indication my non-existent ‘vacation’ had ended was the school WhatsApp group going nuts

As an adult, you don’t get a summer vacation like you used to as a child — not unless you’re an academic or a teacher. That’s what I used to think.

Then Kattabomman’s school, which had closed for the summer, reopened in the first week of July, and I realised that the whole of May and June — during which I worked every working day — I was actually enjoying my summer vacation. How so? Because they were days I could wake up when I wanted, have my morning coffee with the previous day’s bad news, and have a few minutes to myself to contemplate the country’s inexorable descent into darkness.

No such luxury now. The first indication my non-existent ‘summer vacation’ had ended was the school WhatsApp group going nuts. Apparently there were summer projects that should have been completed.

“What summer project?” I bellowed. “He is barely six!”

“There is also holiday homework,” Wife said.

“Oh damn.”

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