Red Alert!! Are High School Students Being Worked Hard?

High-School Students Feeling The Burn

Are Students Being Worked Too Hard?

With more and more student striving to reach the University Campus, the requirements are increasing becoming harder and harder. The expectation of that high-schoolers must achieve like receiving great grades, experience with many clubs, having many extra-curriculars like jobs or contributing to the community are now no longer optional but rather requirements one needs to get that spot. All of this feel rather insane and truly unfair to high-school students, the pressure to succeed is immense and feels like climbing up a mountain; thus because of that, many high-school students are looking to things that they should use to release that stress. Social media, friends, family members, work, grades, volunteering, life changing decisions, and most importantly patience's are all things a high-school students need to balance in order to succeed. That list feels rather harsh to teenagers especially when they should be enjoying their youth more rather facing this much work. Teenagers need time to figure out who they truly want to be in the future, to set themselves up in a path they won't ever truly regret. They need to be able to enjoy the stage of 'youth' which all adults envy teenagers for. Yet instead, student are finding themselves pressured and encouraged to become a young mature adult. High-school students are feeling the burn, they are experiencing a load that many are too young to handle; these young students are being worked too hard.

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What Is My Take About All The Pressure?

With the ever more increasing work that many high-school students need to achieve, I too am also include in that general group of students. As a current high-school student, I am feeling that burn/load that all high-school students experience however, I do not think too much of it in any case. To me, I am not overwhelmed by the huge mountain of work and accomplishments that is expected from to achieve; I believe in being able to accomplish many of these things and actually expect even myself to achieve those results. Yet, that does not make me without any concerns, the concerns on how others will be able to keep up with me or if I'll be able to keep up with others. I know that I'm currently able to keep my pace up with everything yet that does not mean I can keep a steady pace for a really long time. I've seen what had happened to people who couldn't keep such pace and expectation; I've seen how they started to slowly fall back further and further. I am both scared and optimistic about such future, setting my own standards on myself and only myself. I know that I won't be a 'perfect' person and yet still try my hardest. I know and that I am perfectly capable to judge myself the same way I hold such expectations to others. This pressure while rough and desperate, I will not succumb to such pressure and keep holding on.

My Piece Of Advice To Tackle Such Pressure

If there was anything that I could say to any future high-school students the number one thing that I would recommend to them is 'SLEEP'. Many high-school students procrastinate with their sleep, only ever receiving 6 hours or less sleep time. This is 'VERY' bad for such high-school students having to deal with such pressure, I usually have eight to seven hours of sleep a day and am only still able to work at ninety percentage capacity during school. Thus, when I see students not having enough sleep, I can see them struggling both in school work and keeping up in school class. Thus my dear readers, if you are currently a future or current high-school students make sure you know that getting your sleep time will allow you to work at your greatest capacity. Never try to stay awake and always make sure that you're able to handle such pressure.