Cause and Effect

How Stress Actually Affects Students in School
Throughout high school stress is built up on students with over loading of homework, and the desire to get good grades. (21) Some students end up having break downs because of how much stress builds up on them. (16) Parents and teachers don’t understand how much stress students have during their high school and college years. (17) They also don’t realize how it actually affects their life. (10) There are certain levels of stress on the students; academic, social, and extracurricular stress affects the students the most. (19) Some students have so much stress in their life they start falling into bad habits. (15) 4/6
The stress that mostly affects the students is academic stress. (10) Academic stress is caused from an overload of homework. (9) Teachers don’t realize that when students have seven classes and are given homework from each class, it adds up to be more homework than one student can handle. (28) Having so much homework at one time can stress a student out more than they can handle. (17) Students with so much homework, also worry about getting a good grade on every piece of homework they get. (19) Sometimes there is not enough time in the day to get it all done; which stresses the student out even more. (21) From experience, junior year around the time when you have to take the ACT test, was the most stressful time during high school for me. (25) The week before the test, the only thing you worry about is preparing for it. (15) You can’t focus on anything else. (16) Another most stressful moment in high school, is senior year. (10) Deciding where you want to go to college. (8) When you fill out the application to the college you want to go to; you are stressed out and anxious on the long wait to receive a letter saying if you have been accepted or not. (36) 8/12
Social stress has the least amount effect on students. (9) It tends to build up to where it is actually hard to deal with. (14) One thing that some people don’t realize that causes stress is fashion and trying to fit in. (17) Some students worry too much about what they’re going to wear just so they will be able to fit in with everyone else. (23) Friends also cause stress. (4) You may love them to death but sometimes all the gossip and drama stresses you out more than you think it does. (22) You worry too much about how to handle all the drama, and sometimes it just gets out of control. (19) One thing students worry way too much about these days is having a boyfriend or girlfriend. (16) They think it’s the most important thing in the world to have a love life. (15) Yes, it is nice to have someone there for you all the time. (13) Believe me there are way more important things in life than that. (12) Also, money seems to be one of the more stressful situations on students. (13) You always want to have money so that also means you have to get a job; which sometimes is not the easiest thing to do, especially in college. (28) Plus there is stress built up from worry about the costs of paying for college and wondering how you’ll be able to pay tuition and pay back student loans. (29) 7/14
Another stress that builds up on students is extracurricular stress. (10) This kind of stress students put on themselves. (8) They have the option to do these certain activities like sports, clubs and some sort of leadership positions. (18) Sports causes major stress because you’re whole team depends on you when it’s game day and try to play your best. (21) Sports also take up time with practices and games, so you never have any time for anything else. (21) During school teachers encourage students to join clubs to meet new people and be a part of the community. (19) That’s just more stress adding up when you are supposed to have club meetings at certain times and most likely to do projects with your club, which just adds more stress. (31) Some students love having leadership roles throughout school such as class president. (12) Or there is FCCLA (Family Career Community Leaders of America) which students join to show leadership to America. (18) 5/9
When students have too much stress in their life, they can start to fall into bad habits. (17) One of the bad habits is alcohol and drugs. (9) They think drinking alcohol and doing drugs makes life easier because they feel as if nothing else matters when intoxicated. (20) Most students smoke the drug marijuana to make their stress go away. (12) Sometimes too much stress can cause a student to become depressed. (11) Their lives are thrown out of proportion for them from the homework build up and will cause too much stress on them which results into depression. (26) Stress build up can actually cause a student to drop out of high school. (14) They feel as if they can’t handle it all and dropping out is the only solution to get away from the stress. (22) 4/8
Parents and teachers need to start realizing how much stress students go through during high school and college. (18) Academic, social, and extracurricular stress all piled onto one student can make them start to fall into bad habits. (19) Do you really want your child to turn to alcohol and drugs from all the stress? (16) Depression is another thing no parent wants to see their kid go through. (13) Also, a student dropping out of high school is no way to handle stress, especially when you want to see them succeed in life. (24) Teachers need to look at how much homework is given each night and keep the students in mind and have in consideration they are most likely going to have more homework in all their seven classes. (36) 4/6