The Review Student Magazine-RVHS Spring/ Summer 2014 Volume 1 | Page 16

The Stress in High School by Jake Fanning H 16 ow often do students stress over the grades and how that will affect the overall grade in the class? It happens to everyone. In middle and elementary school, it was still stressful to get a bad grade on a test. Overall though, it wouldn’t have an effect on where you went in life. High school, that’s a whole other ball game. The grades you get do have an effect on where you get to go for college and what you do in life. This creates one of the most stressful environments to be in known to human beings as… high school. In today’s world almost every single high school student would be described as a mental health case back in the ‘50s. In fact in the 1980’s a study was held and it was found that high school students have more people with anxiety than all the mental health patients in the ‘50s combined. Thirty years later, the stats have increased exponentially. The fact is that the stress and anxiety just doesn’t just appear when you step into the building, or disappear when you leave the building it continues throughout the day even after school. Many students participate in sports and other after school activities. During that time not only are they thinking about what they are doing; but, also about homework and studying. It doesn’t get any better when you get home, either. Many students at RV say that their parents don’t help. In fact, they say that their parents contribute to the amount of stress. I sat down with a student to see if her parents just added to the stress on her grading. I asked her, “Do they mint.com (your parents) add to the stress by saying things like, ‘You can do it. You just need to try harder.’” Her answer was, “Yes. It depends on the subject. If there is a C in that class, parents jump on them. Even if you are trying very hard, you feel like you are letting them down because they really want you to