Is School Slowly Destroying Your Brain?

Dear schools: you're hurting your students. Please stop!

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Written by: Mitchell Moffit
Edited by: Luka Šarlija

Sources:
"Why We Sleep" by Dr. Matthew Walker

[keconto]

Students: is sleep important?

School: well yes, but actually no.

[christopherulrich]

I personally didn't mind the tests in highschool, however I know a lot of my friends did,
What destroyed my soul the most, was the constant, excessive homework teachers gave, not realizing that every other teacher was giving homework that day (nearly every day) creating several hours of homework every night, leaving no room for extra curriculars, or even relaxing or socializing time, sending you into a spiral until your motivation is gone and your soul is destroyed. I saw this in nearly every single person within my friend group.
School. Needs. To. Change.

[emilyzhang]

It's sad that schools don't really teach you the real life skills but rather, some useless information that we'll probably never use later in our lives unless we pursue an academic path. That's why a lot of teens are so unprepared for independence when in the past, teens were perfectly capable of surviving on their own because they were forced to learn real life skills. A lot of schools also fail to protect victims of bullying but when the victim stands up for themselves, they get in trouble (this seems to be a common trope in America).

[_lunce_]

Thanks to school, I’ve gotten dumber every day! The constant amounts of stress, lack of sleep, lack of motivation, fear of failing in life, and awkwardness of being an antisocial person had destroyed my brain! Thank you so much!

[platypusrecords]

Back when I was in school, I received an article saying that “why should high schoolers be the exception from early start times?” These people don’t understand that teenagers are NOT the same as adults and have a much different sleep cycle.

[Jrgosman]

Slogan for school: "whatever gets you stressed, we'll do it"

[Sunny_omor]

I remember how one time in this year, when I came home after a school in a friday, I falled asleep like around 3 PM, and then I slept 18 hours without waking up at all. I was just so tired. The sleep like this felt like a heaven, I wish I could feel that again.

[SparrowDraws]

This is why I think personally that homeschooling is so good. When I went to school, I was homeschooled but with a co-op. We were only on-campus two times a week, those being Monday and Wednesday. On Monday, I had to arrive by 8:05 am, and that was just because I had an extracurricular art class. On Wednesday, I had to arrive by 9:05 am. And on normal days, I usually got all my work done in about 3 hours because I didn’t have as much fluff that school adds. It was, and still is, astonishing to me how quickly all your work COULD be completed if schools allowed you to. And at my co-op, we got to choose which classes about science, history, etc. And the teachers were great too. If only normal schools could be like that.

[KP-ovmg]

Man, that was the number one thing I remember kids complaining about when I was in school. Waking up at 5 or 6 is TORTURE when you're a teen!

[hiding_behind]

I once asked the exact same question, “why does school start so early?” they answered “well, when you start early in the morning, your mind is refreshed and you’re able to focus on tasks” sounds pretty bs to me. we don’t need to be waking up at 6am to feel “refreshed” to do schoolwork. sleep early they say well no shit when you gave us 2 projects and 5 assignments in one day and asked us to continue at home or else you’ll get yelled at. we have lives outside of school, we have other things to worry about, to improve, to do. we shouldn’t make school our life but instead a part of life but sadly that’s the reality of it.

[Qgnzx_TV]

The saddest problem with schools is that schools make students look bad and making them look depressed

[wafflesjrs]

School is not useless! Thanks to school, i had:

Depression
Anxiety
Hating people
Social Anxiety
2 hours of sleep
Stress everyday
Rebellion
And low Self esteem 😊

[David_F]

Imagine kids having an exam in their first class of the day. That’s completely unfair because the majority of the kids are not at 100% cognitive capacity. There has to be a study somewhere comparing test scores from the first classes of the day to the later classes.

[redlollipop]

Schools: “We want to provide the best learning experience for children!”

*School’s Learning Experience:*
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[HeatWaved]

I was standing in line for lunch and was getting shoved by bullies just taking it then the principle came and yelled at me for pushing, so others and I told her that I wasn’t, but she did not believe any of us she only believed the bullies who always lie. I hate the school system

[Djent_Djenerator]

I did marchingband, jazz band, concert band, soccer, and lacrosse in highschool. That with honors and AP classes led to me having 14 hour school days plus work on the weekends leaving me with no time to sleep or relax. Now I’m in my first year of college as an aerospace engineering major and I’m loving college so much more. I can’t believe how horrible highschool is structured. It’s like a prison.

[mckenzie]

I literally wrote a whole essay on the negative effects on the physical body school has created when I was 11/12. The amount of backpack related injures in just the US alone is scarily high.

[AcDel]

"send this to your teachers"

Teachers: sleep early

[wa_akii]

i used to be so creative before highschool… and i used to love learning so much… now i just wonder when i’ll have a break, because while im naturally curious and i love to learn, theres so many things being shoved in my brain so rapidly with so little sleep that i genuinely cannot activate that part of my brain that is for critical thinking without wanting to sleep for hours afterwards. I hate this.

[amidlej]

The moment that I, a 'gifted student', started getting chronic pain out of stress, the mentity I already had of "this is clearly wrong" just got hammered down much more. It doesn't help that my school decided it would be a great f*cking idea to try to push me to take many different tests to many different famous schools here in the area. The thing is: I had a goddamn breakdown in front of the coordinator because of that. Isn't it nice?