Students overwhelmed with workload

Many high school students today feel overwhelmed by the amount of schoolwork they receive. The balance of academics with the arts, athletics, and other social involvement requires a particular use of time management. Despite the students’ efforts to manage their responsibilities, the strain of academics remain.

A recent poll taken within the Westminster walls shows that 80 percent of the high school students feel overloaded by homework. Such a high percentage reflects the overwhelmingly high effects of school bombardment. The poll displays that well over half of the student body is, quit simply, stressed.

Stress seems to be a close friend of today’s society. Do the extreme stress levels really begin before students are even out of the house? If an adult was to explain his or her day as going to work for eight hours, then engaging in an activity for two to three hours, until finally returning home at night and doing an average of two to three more hours of work, and then repeating the process five days a week, they would most likely be labeled a workaholic. Why is it then that the high school students have been forced into such a lifestyle? If the work pattern has been labeled unhealthy for adults, wouldn’t it be even unhealthier for a teenager?

The level of expectancy students are given are both overwhelming and unrealistic.

By Ellie Fink