How maths homework foiled a ninja’s plans

NOBODY took the time to properly explain the concept of “school” to me. Maybe it’s not their fault; we don’t usually explain things we consider obvious.

- GREY MUTTER BY LANCE FREDERICKS

Take homework, for example. How was I to know that once your parents — those beings you loved and trusted (note the past tense) — sold you into schooling slavery, that was the end of your fun forever?

I mean, come on ... is it not enough to be hauled out of a comfy bed at an ungodly hour and marched into incarceration for endless hours? Why would anyone, any rational person, still want to prolong the torture with little mathematics assignments from prison, especially when there was so much fun to be had in those few precious hours of freedom?

Besides, I reasoned that teachers who gave homework hadn't prepared their lessons properly. That's why they leaned on us to go above and beyond, sacrificing our time to make them look good.