i continue to be haunted by a time in middle school where i related to a teacher that after factoring sleep, school, commute, and homework i had only an hour to myself each day and she interjected with "that's great!"

i continue to be haunted by a time in middle school where i related to a teacher that after factoring sleep, school, commute, and homework i had only an hour to myself each day and she interjected with "that's great!"
.... the hell? Yuck. What, they wanted you to stop having any kind of personal time?
they way i interpret it is that the teacher has had so little free time themselves over the course of so many years that even having 1hr/night sounds not just like an improvement but like enough to satisfy anyone