The Affirmative

Chris Baldwin is a junior at PMHS and athlete on the Varsity Baseball team.

April 18, 2019

  1. I feel students are worked too hard because everyone is stressing out about all the work they are getting.
  2. I’ve talked to a lot of people and every time someone is stressed, they get upset and don’t feel any motivation to do anything and they lose all social life and all the work they get keeps piling on and gets harder and worse and hurts them.
  3. But if people play sports or have other important outside activities and we don’t know what their family life is like they might be struggling. Usually homework is due the next day and say an assignment is due at the end of the week so can other assignments for different classes and then they stress they don’t have enough time because they have important things to attend before they can do homework and then they lose sleep and everyone needs sleep.
  4. But with all these clubs are piling more work, and if they need to meet with people that takes up space too and if they get pulled out of class to speak to someone then they need to learn the new stuff from class at a different time which adds more.
  5. What many students are we talking about actual ones or ones who lie and say they are fine when they really aren’t?
  6. I mean people are getting overwhelmed in class and stressing over how they had so much work and got no sleep and fell asleep during class.
  7. High school should be a memorable time. I think we can both agree that the high school experience has its ups and downs but we should always strive to make it the best memory we can, despite some of the hardships that come along with it.