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Homework-Induced Anxiety Or Extreme Stress

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School can be stressful. It can cause anxiety or extreme stress. It can even end in mental breakdowns. I think that mental health should be a more recognized thing in schools. I feel as though it is often overlooked and should be addressed. We should be focusing on making sure that students are mentally well and able to do work than if they got their homework done. Homework. Sometimes we get piles and piles of homework whether it’s projects that we’ve been working on for weeks or daily math or science homework. It can get to a point where students just shut down and are unable to do any kind of work. If we had more study halls or time to work on it in class maybe we wouldn’t stress about getting it done on time. I think homework-induced anxiety is a pretty common thing among students my age and I wish that we could do something about it. It was found that an average high school student has the same level of anxiety that the average psychiatric patient in the 1950’s. …show more content…

Depending on when the bus comes or who picks you up for school, kids have to get up pretty early for school. Why? A National Sleep Foundation poll found that 59% of 6th through 8th graders aren’t getting the recommended hours of sleep on school nights. We should be getting eight and a half to nine and a half hours of sleep but two-thirds high schoolers are reporting getting less than seven hours of sleep on school nights.Sometimes it’s really hard to get at least eight hours of sleep between homework and other normal things we do when we get home. If school started later we would have more time to wake up and get ready and be more alert and awake for the

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