I completely understand. I teach high school students. I daily hear them talking to each other about things like this. What can be funny is when we have a test. Unlike many people I work with, I don't give all scan-tron, fill-in-the-bubble tests. I give them the chance to draw, explain, use their own words, to get the point across on a majority of the questions. The same student who "doesn't have time" to write the 10 vocabulary definitions for HW will walk in the next morning after a test and get upset if I'm not finished grading all 77 test papers (no one gets their test back until I have graded them all).
I know that they will either grow up and change, or grow up and stay the same, and that as one person I will have only a little influence, but I smile, point out to them that I wasn't able to complete all 221 pages of my HW (if the test was 3 pages long) and promise to try to get them back the next day. (The principal allows 3 days as reasonable for returning tests.)
Sometimes the point is made, and sometimes I get dumb looks!
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