The Cause And Effects Of School Stress In High School

Dr. Debra Koss ( child psychiatrist) believes that in our society today teens and parents face more stress and pressures than ever before. When a student acts up the first thought should not be punishment but what is going wrong in this young one’s life and how can it be helped. In Fund du Lac High School three hundred fifty-eight freshman out of six hundred thirty-two participated in mental health screening and sixty-four percent of the students tested were diagnosed with a mental illness. Many factors are contributing to this bad school environment ranging from overworked students, students ridiculing other students and faculty that genuinely do not care about the students. A teacher, who does not take interest in the students and does not do their best to make sure their students succeed, risks destroying their students confidence. 8,300 students drop out on a average day. These students say they drop because they don't feel safe, they can't keep up, they couldn't attend everyday or they did not have the confidence they would finish the class. Students everyday are either dropping out or hurting themselves because of the events that happen inside these school buildings. Forty percent of parents say children experience the most stress from academics. Chronic stress causes a sense of panic which causes more stress. “Despite whatever is going on -if you are a bit depressed, stressed, or overwhelmed you want to put up this positive

Stress is a major factor that contributes to the students’ performance and state of mind. The effects of stress on a student’s ability to achieve adequate grades can be extremely detrimental. The weight

Student stress seems to be a major theme throughout the novel, The Overachievers: the secret lives of driven kids. The author establishes this theme by providing examples of the stress caused from academics to parental pressure. The cause of each overachiever’s problems seem to be stress. They stress over not being good enough even though they are all extremely knowledgeable and self-driven. Whether it’s not getting all As or not meeting your parents goals, each student in this novel suffers an incredibly unhealthy amount of stress, then they should.

College students has a lot of stress that can lead to them to a condition like depression and decide to committed suicide. Those stresses can come from the individual loss a social network because this is make the individual feeling insecure, lonely or the feeling of no confidence about their self. College student also experience being pressure academically and socially, for instance having certain standard of pass and fail and the individual is expecting to meet, which this can put a lot of stress and worry to the individual. College also has a difficulty time adjusting to new demands of college life like living independent that they must take care of their self, in charge of their bills and making good decision about their life, which is can be very hard to college students and leaving them feel so stress. When their academic performance decrease, it can be very stressful because it would mean that they will not meet the require of certain GPA point or they must retake the class which is require money and time. College students also stress about losing financial aid and debt after graduate or worry about when they are going to graduated. There are just so many

Nowadays there are so many problem in the schools of America. The biggest problem school faces is stress. Stress is a state of mental emotional strain or tension on the brain or body. One of the ways kids usually get stressed is from homework. Teachers today assign about one homework sheet for each class which means we get at least seven items of homework to take home a day. Another area of stress for students is grades. Students feel a lot of pressure from their parents and teachers to get good grades. If students don’t get passing grades, they have to redo the classes and this is very stressful. Finally, kids feel stressed because of all the pressure they get on the end of trimester or semester, all the teachers telling if you don’t

One of the biggest lies ever said about teen years is that they’re “the best years of your life.” If you were to ask any high schooler in today’s world how he/she feels about that phrase, they may think the exact opposite. Education dates back to the earliest human life. The American Education System offers a cosmic field of choices for all students. With so many choices, students get to choose different subjects. With all those different subjects, students become busy with a lot of classwork and/or homework, thus creating stress on students. Students who are stressed by school work, such as testing, studying, and homework, should be given less to do, because it would improve student’s energy and relaxation.

There is no doubt that students actually attempting to perform well in high school are facing a great deal of stress. It is easy to say that students can get by with no stress at all, but the pressure of getting into college and getting good great makes it nearly impossible for most students to settle for ‘passing’ grades. Essentially what this means is that students are pushed to the very brim in an attempt to get straight A’s in the honors course while balancing extra-curricular activities, and often times a close-to-nonexistent social life. Due to all of this pressure, students have stopped trying to take the time to figure themselves, out, letting their own well-being slip in favor of the grades they need to get into the college of their dreams. As Baird states, “We know the Pythagorean Theorem by heart / But short-circuit when asked / “How are you?” / We don’t know. / We don’t know. / That wasn’t on the study guide. / We usually know the answer, / But rarely know ourselves” (High School, line 14). There is only so much pressure that an individual can take before they start to crack. The prime issue with this is that students attempting to get copious amounts of schoolwork done, cannot afford to crack, so they push these

I know stress very well. Last year I was a resource teacher for K-8. I was responsible for all standard curriculums in Kindergarten Language Arts, and Math curriculum for 5th, 6th grade, 7th grade, 8th grade and all middle school Intensive periods. Stressful can not even begin to explain my day. Not only was it everyday stress of a normal teacher form administration, district and state level. Understanding the standards for each grade level and subject was a job in itself. All of my students are on standard diploma, all very low, and/or a behavior problem. This causes stress and mental anguish. The time stress of going at a slower pace, trying to choose material that covers the most in depth practice with breaking down each step because the students still adhere to the common assessments is stressful. For 60 minutes a day I had three grade levels working on grade level material. I would not wish that type of day on anyone, it is just simply too much. I have high expectations for myself as well and I

Imagine that you are the first one in your family to be accepted to and attend a college or university. Or that you are only able to go to college because of a scholarship, or multiple scholarships. Or that you had to take out loans to be able to get a higher education. Or any combination of those scenarios. Now imagine your family and your friends being extremely proud of the fact that you made it to college. Everyone counting on you to do an excellent job and succeed and make something of yourself. That is a lot of pressure, right? College students are weighted down by enormous amounts of pressure coming from many various sources. Family, academics, finances, work, and social interactions all contribute to a student’s life and mental health and there should be more awareness of this.

Your alarm goes off at 6:00am. From the moment you open your eyes, you dread the rest of the day. You don’t want to get out of bed because you know that, all day, you’ll be burdened with the stress and anxiety that comes from your classes. It weighs on you every moment from the time you wake up to the time you go back to sleep. This is what around 25% of teens have felt at some point in their lives (Mercury News). While academic stress has been experienced by every educated individual on some level, the extent to which the negative effects are realized is far less than it should be; thus, the American education system needs to work to decrease this burden on students by raising awareness, not wasting time on unrealistic solutions, and creating

“I’m so stressed” is a phrase so commonly used by teens, especially to describe how they feel about school. In many ways this is true, much truer than some adults like to admit; for this reason, many colleges and professionals have done studies to research stress in students. According to a study done by NYU forty nine percent of teens said they feel overwhelmingly stressed on a daily basis, and thirty one percent said they feel somewhat stressed on a daily basis. Females tended to feel much more stressed than males. Grades, homework, and college preparation were the top reasons for students' stress. Twenty six percent scored positive for clinical Depression due to stress, and a majority of teachers could see stress affecting students as well as the school in

Student’s mental health is deteriorating due to pressure to achieve. High schools can be stressful environments, induce anxiety, and even bring about depression. According to neurologist Judy Willis in her article “The Neuroscience of Joyful Education,” “These scans demonstrate that under stressful conditions information is blocked from entering the brain's areas of higher cognitive memory consolidation and storage. In other words, when stress activates the brain's affective filters, information flow to the higher cognitive networks is limited and the learning process grinds to a halt.” To summarize, stressful environment impedes higher-level thinking in the brain. Schools need to focus on student health, and in turn, the students will be able to learn better and spare their mental health. “In addition, when classroom activities are pleasurable, the brain releases dopamine, a neurotransmitter that stimulates the memory centers and promotes the release of acetylcholine, which increases focused attention”

The high standards of students are unreasonable. It increases stress levels which affect our mental health, physical capabilities, and social life. Chronic levels of stress can lead to depression, anxiety disorders, and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). An average teen’s stress level is 5.8/10, as opposed to an adult’s, which is 5.1/10. Furthermore, 30% of teens are sad or depressed because of stress, 31% are overwhelmed because of it, 23% have skipped meals, and 34% expect their stress levels to rise in the near future. Stress can also affect your nervous reactions,

Do you like to be stressed? When are you most stressed, probably during a busy time of the year? Maybe work for adult and then for the younger adult child most of them would answer school. Like most people no one enjoys to be stressed. Unfortunately there are many things in life that cause a person to feel stress. One of these things for some people would be there education. With America having many different law on education all American are given a free education till they are out of high school. With school being mandatory and being a major part of a person’s life it can also be a very stressful process for many people. The debate whether or not students are being pushed too hard in school had been discussed in great deal over the past

Based on these findings from research done previously I feel that this study is important. Firstly, we need to understand what causes the stressors and how it affects the individual. For example, if you have an entire university with stressed students, not being productive, not performing well academically perhaps thinking of dropping out of university because of the overwhelming anxiety; it can be detrimental to the institution in terms of status and students in terms of individual realisation. Secondly, we soon have to formulate effective and efficient stress management guidelines as we