Writing an 18 page paper for an 8th Grade assignment due two weeks after it is assigned is right

<> This is a very relevant point in which I will get to in just a moment. < > You do not hear news stories based on the laziness of students in foreign countries. But they hear segments on the students of the USA. They are considered lazy and priviledged by the rest of the world. I'm inclined to agree. < > How sad for you and your friends that you couldn't produce an "A" with one night's work. That only says that you're either not as smart as I was, or that you're too lazy to put the proper effort into your work that I did to my work. <<(Answering a question in the comments below) We cannot use any tricks to fool our teacher that would make out paper longer. She has been a teacher for a long time, and she would recognize any variation in the size. We are also not allowed to add pictures, if we do, we get points taken off. Any other tricks we try would also end in loss of points.>> Thank you for acknowledging the comments below in this debate. Now I may do the very same. You have three sources that have all successfully completed the eighth grade and we all echo the other's advice. Instead of complaining about the task that each of us has had to do, you came online and made a debate about it, instead of actually doing the report itself. <> I apologize for offending you, but it was not my intent. Actions speak louder than words, and inaction speaks just as loudly. I believe you truly care about your grades. I do. I also believe that you would prefer things to be easy and have fast solutions, which is why you probably still haven't completed your assignment. < > I doubt that, as there are countless websites that offer cheats of every kind for students in high school. Students cheat every single day in this country. It's laughable to suggest that "many" would be "quite upset" if someone did their work for them. I have a nephew in the eighth grade and I guarantee that he wouldn't be as distraught. <<"You have such a sense of entitlement, but you haven't earned such.">> I wasn't referring to you, specifically, in this statement. I was referring to your entire generation. As a whole, you are everything that I claim you to be. Prove me wrong if this isn't so. < > I have already experienced what you're going through. I did it (without all the complaining). My schoolmates and I accepted our workload as part of our academic careers. And, yes, we complained about things, but never about having TWO-WHOLE-WEEKS TO PRODUCE eighteen little pages. It's madness! < > Yes. So? This debate is how you claim to have been working like crazy, yet here you are on the internet while your paper is unfinished. There are three sources here echoing the fact that this is a small feat and not unreasonable at all. If I seem to act with entitlement, it is because I've earned the right to be this way. I've paid my dues. I've written the papers that I was assigned to write. I work and earn every cent in my bank account. Entitlement, within reason, is mine for the taking. You are barely a teenager, so I'll give you some advice. It only gets much, much harder before it ever becomes easy.