Today's Exhausted Superkid: Article Analysis

In today's society American teens start the school year off energized and eager to learn. Although, over time some of the students’ performance plummets.. Many say it’s from being exhausted or overworked. However, two different articles suggests the idea that young teenagers are growing tense and overburdened from the vigorous workload. One of the Articles written by Frank Bruni titled, "Today's Exhausted Superkids" argues that teenagers' stress and exhaustion are correlated to procrastination in school courses. On the other hand, Robert Pondiscio has written an article called "The Myth of the Overstressed American Teen" where Pondiscio states that Brunis claims are false and provides us with more factual information on the topic at hand. Pondiscio argues that students are not overworked or stress. Through my experience I would agree with Pondiscio that the students are not overworked; instead students just procrastinate on projects and assignments which causes stress and cramming. This stress and cramming is what causes students …show more content…
Pondiscos study shows that two-thirds of American high school graduates take no AP courses, fewer than 8 percent of high school students took more than five AP classes. Moreover, Pondiscio concludes that “about 40% spend no time at all in organized activities”. Pondiscio data matches my experience, if students are not taking any AP courses or extra curricular activities that are time consuming, than how are students stress? The problem is not coursework, but time management. If students avoided procrastinating on their assignments then the would have more time to research, analyze, and improve the quality of work. More students would to be able to take and pass their AP courses and more importantly; the workload wouldn’t be overwhelming because they would have adequate time to complete their