The Stress in High School
by Jake Fanning
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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
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(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