The talk about the weaknesses of our school education system has been around for what seems like forever. We try to fix them but only to end up creating more problems that affect the system itself but as well as the students in it. One of the things that we try to improve is the education itself. Over the past few decades, it seems as if the standards of what you need to do in order to graduate and be able to get into a good college has gone over the roof. Students that enter the school system every year are pressured even more than the previous graduating class. New high standards are set, which most students will never be able to fully accomplished, unless they breathe, eat, and sleep school. All of this pressure to be the best, to get into the best colleges in the country, to have good grades, ultimately gets to be too much for students to the point in which they suffer from stress. There is not enough hours in the day to be able to complete all the things students are expected to do.
A normal day of a student consists of going to school, in which they'll spend 7 hours in. Followed by roughly 2 hours of homework, not including studying and advanced placement classes which most students are pressured to take and require more time, and lets not forget extra curricular activities which look good in college applications. Several studies have concluded that a growing teen needs at least 9 hours of sleep, which most students nowadays don’t get as they stay up late trying to finish their assignments. Teens therefore lack sleep which deteriorates their academic performance. Students who are unable to cope with the constant need to excel in school will suffer from anxiety disorders that comes from the stress of it all. School boards need to realize that students don’t need the work overload that comes from teachers every year, they already have enough that comes from parents and the biggest contributor, themselves. No I’m not saying that students shouldn’t be pushed to give it their best, but at what point will students be enough in the eyes of the school system?
