Stressed children desperate for freedom.
Author: Aimee
From: Brighton, Other
Age: 14
Date: 8th Nov 2003, 4:27 AM
Rating: 5
Comment:
Title: Stressed children desperate for freedom.
Nowadays growing up has so much pressure. GCSE's, A levels all loom on the horrizon if the candidate wishes to be blessed with a decent job...and even with various qualifications there is no guarantee that they will do so. So many people are overqualified, working somewhere below their standards, unable to achieve their degrees.
There are so many exams to sit throughout school life alone, excluding higher education. At the age of six or seven Key stage one reaches it's end and children have to sit SATS. They are put under imense pressure, which only increases with what follows in year six and nine. At fourteen children have sat nine different exams excluding seperate papers for their subjects. Teachers push them harder and harder as they progress. Is this really healthy?
Nowadays children are found to grow up so quickly that it astounds many adults who think of their time as teenagers. They are forced to deal with adult responsibility far sooner than in previous years and these exams just contribute to that. So many young children are now falling ill with depression, anxiety and stress- simply down to these exams along with their lives. Childhood is a very taxing time alone. It's just made harder by the governement.
Give the kids some freedom.
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