Is School Slowly Destroying Your Brain?

Students: is sleep important? School: well yes, but actually no.

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.

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).

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 😊

Speaking of school, I think they are doing a great job at destroying everyone’s curiosity

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!

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!

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

"send this to your teachers" Teachers: sleep early

It’s so frustrating that there are so many studies about this topic going on but no one is doing anything about it and we are just told that we are making excuses and we all are just slowly sinking in this vast ocean of misunderstanding and nobody cares

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.

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.

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.

School is the perfect example of "Great Concept executed terribly."

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

School. Really don't miss it! The amount of breakdowns I had. The amount of homework given. The stress even. Even years later, still having to deal with the stress due to being forced to keep it suppressed for the longest time. Didn't help being at home either. Wasn't allowed to let out emotions anywhere, so that only made the days of school so much more stressful. Took my chance to drop out during the pandemic and WOW the difference is huge! Doesn't feel like your trapped at all AND have your free time being free! The school system either needs to change for the health and safety of those studying or close down. You learn so much more outside of school than in the buildings themselves.

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

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.

I believe this, it's so freaking ridiculous how I have to wake up at 5:45 AM for 7 hours of boredom. Absolutely ridiculous. And then when you try to tell your parents they just shrug it off. School is absolutely destroying me, I just want to spend time with my friends

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.