Essay About Stress In High School

It has come to my attention that more and more teenagers these days care about getting good grades and getting in a good college and then a good job. I’m sure we all know the fear of report cards, mid-terms, and final exams with thoughts like, what if I can’t go to college with these grades and what if my parents are mad at me and I won’t be able to play sports, ringing in your head. Many students worry so much that the stress starts to get to them and teenagers already deal with enough stress as it is, and grades and school just make the stress worse. Most teenage students are worried about bad grades, even if they are good students who pay attention and listen in class because of many reasons. The biggest reason is simple: zeros. A sufficient

Grades frighten students because they just add to the already high stress and expectations placed on the shoulders of teenagers. Instead of a grading system and turning in classwork and homework and projects, taking tests and quizzes, why not just learn orally. The ancient Greeks that went to school never had to write anything down because everything was done out loud. Since nothing was written down, grades didn’t exist. The teacher just talked and the students listened, and the Greeks were pretty well off in advancements and discoveries. Students shouldn’t just stop doing work on paper, I mean the work just wouldn’t be corrected for a grade because if the student thinks that they have to turn it in for a grade, they focus on the small details, which just adds stress on having to remember how to do the work. I hope that my proposal on the extinction of grades in school systems across the world gave you insight on what could and will happen to society if the grading of student work continues. This proposal is very important because now the fate of every student in the world relies on whether or not you put this proposal into effect, because if you don’t then every student will end up a homeless person or a cat-lady and eventually die a miserable, lonely death from the heart-break of failure in high