Today I want to write about something that really caught my eye while I was working in an academy last year, and during the private lessons I teach this year. It is something that also happened to me when I was in school, later in high school, and finally in university. It is something that we assume as individuals because we have dealt with it, and we don't have another option but accept it: school stress.
We have normalized to be stressed, but it shouldn't be normal for a kid. Children go to school from Monday to Friday for six hours, that should be enough, it almost seems like a workday for an adult. However, teachers don't think that is enough and they ask them to do homework at home. I am aware that practicing at home, doing some exercises can help them in their learning process, nonetheless, it isn't the only way. I am writing about this because the other day, while I was giving a class to a boy that is in his second year of ESO had to do almost 20 exercises from the book, a summary of the unit, a project, and study. He started to freak out and ended up having a mental breakdown.
Moreover, if we add all the extracurricular activities that the students do, they barely have time to enjoy themselves. Children should have time for themselves, and more an at age where they are suffering changes, both physical and emotional. We, as teachers, should have in consideration our students because they don’t have only one subject, they have more, and if all of us ask them to do 20 exercises each, they are not going to have time to do anything.
I remember once, in 5th year of Primary school, I had to do so many homework that when I got back home from ballet it was around 9 and I still had to shower and have dinner, so I ended up finishing my homework at midnight. I even had nightmares thinking about everything I had to do for school. A child shouldn’t go through that, it is insane that an early age, they already know what stress is.
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