Article on Stress
Stress may be caused by friction between student and parent. However, the root of the friction is school and academic results. In the above article, a tenth grader or in other words, a secondary four student, works hard so that her parents would be happy. "They’re looking at (her) to do something in (her) life that they couldn't do".
Parents may be expecting too much from their child. They pressurize them to do well in school, making school the root of the stress that teenagers are facing.
As stated in Foo Ying Han's post, "Children from divorced homes suffer academically. They experience high levels of behavior problems. Their grades suffer, and they are less likely to graduate from high school." This would then cause their parents to scold them and pressurize them even further. Also, Foo Ying Han states that"Education choices - after high school, paying for college" which show that teenagers are stress and concerned about their education, therefore proving that the main cause of stress is school.
From our survey, so far, 75 % of participants feel that the main cause of stress is school. They complained that "schools give too much homework" and "parents pressurize" them. Also, 88% of them agreed that Singapore is a competitive place to study in. They feel that "there is fierce competitions between students". This is because "everyone wants to get good marks" to secure their future. There are also some that feel that "we are treated like machines" in school, hence, many teenagers get stressed these days.
Therefore, I can conclude that The main cause of stress, is definitely school.
Rusydina (26)
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ReplyDeleteRusydina, I could not agree with you as you stated, 'As stated in Foo Ying Han's post, "Children from divorced homes suffer academically. They experience high levels of behavior problems. Their grades suffer, and they are less likely to graduate from high school." This would then cause their parents to scold them and pressurize them even further. Also, Foo Ying Han states that"Education choices - after high school, paying for college" which show that teenagers are stress and concerned about their education, therefore proving that the main cause of stress is school.
Ying Han stated 'children from divorced homes'. Aren't the root causes for the child to suffer academically is because of the bad relationship between his/her parent? And you said the parents would pressurise them further, isn't the pressure from parents causes the teen to be stressed out?
Furthermore, you said that not being able to pay for college fees could prove to be a main cause of stress in school. However, isn't not being able to pay for fees part of a financial difficulty? Not being financially stable could allow the child to worry about their parents' burden of paying fees instead of school, do you agree?
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ReplyDeleteYeah, im lixuan again...
ReplyDeleteHEY RUSYDINA (:, you have added a survey result showing that "75 % of participants feel that the main cause of stress is school. They complained that "schools give too much homework" and "parents pressurize" them. Also, 88% of them agreed that Singapore is a competitive place to study in. They feel that "there is fierce competitions between students"
However, the participants may not be those from a broken family and also I have found a survey result too! (:
From this awesome website: http://acsteens.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/teen-stress-parent-tips-and-upcoming-forum-in-palo-alto/:
"In a more informal survey of 60 young people, the PRIMARY sources of tension and trouble for teens and their friends were: relationships with friends and family; the pressure of expectations from self and others; financial pressures; and tragedy in the lives of family and friends (described as death, divorce, cancer)."
This shows that other causes is apparent for teens to feel stressed out as well.
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ReplyDeleteHi! I am Ying Han.
ReplyDeleteRusydina, you mentioned this two sentences in your posts. "Parents may be expecting too much from their child. They pressurize them to do well in school, making school the root of the stress that teenagers are facing." Doesn't this two sentences show that parents are the ones who cause more stress to their child? Their parents pressurize their children to do well in their studies and in school. Doesn't that mean that parents are the one causing stress for their child and not school? The school did not "ask" the parents of their child to pressurize them so that they can do well in their studies. However, it is their parents who are pressurizing their own children to do well. Therefore, the main cause of stress delivered by the sentence is parents and not school.
In addition, I stated "Children from divorced homes". This means that it is because of relationship or family problems caused the child's academic results to drop. It is not because of the school itself that the child's academic results drop. Therefore, doesn't this prove that school is not the main cause of stress but family or relationship problems are the ones that caused the child to be stressed out?