Every student is entitled to an anxiety free learning environment. If schools fail to recognize or accept that anxiety inhibits a student’s ability to learn, the student will never receive the help that they need. Anxiety related to academics is not a new issue, but it has never gotten the recognition that it needs. If a student has anxiety it impedes on their ability to learn. Academic anxiety left untreated can cause long term symptoms, that carry with them into adulthood. A lack of motivation is more likely to become present in anxious teens, which can result in bad grades or less opportunities in the future. Most importantly untreated anxiety impedes on teens emotional and social growth. It is important for students who have this mental
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A school’s job is to teach students the skills they need to go to college or to get a job. It is hard to determine where the line should be drawn on schools helping unmotivated students. Teenagers are hard to reason with, if they don’t want to do something it will be very hard to get them to do it. A school can not provide help to every single unmotivated student, but they can provide interventions to students with lower grades to ask why they aren’t doing well. These interventions will help many kids, not just kids with anxiety. Anxiety is a debilitating mental illness that affects motivation, you can’t just think positive or shake off the fear. It is very hard to get over anxiety, and it is a very personal illness. Interventions would give students with anxiety a chance to speak up and talk about their …show more content…
Under the individuals with disability act (IDEA) section 300.600 State monitoring and Enforcement, “ b) The primary focus of the State's monitoring activities must be on-- (1) Improving educational results and functional outcomes for all children with disabilities; and (2) Ensuring that public agencies meet the program requirements under Part B of the Act, with a particular emphasis on those requirements that are most closely related to improving educational results for children with disabilities” (IDEA.ed.gov). This regulation is put in place so students with disabilities, mental or physical, receive help in school that improves educational results and outcomes for all students. Public schools are required by law to help students, who have a grant from the from the government, to help students with mental and physical disabilities. Anxiety is a mental disability [illness], so by law state funded schools are required to give support to students with anxiety. The best way to get a student with anxiety to excel in school is to make them feel comfortable in and out of the classroom. For example, if a student with anxiety needs to do an oral presentation the teacher should give the student the option to present just to the teacher. Testing is stressful for any student, but for students with anxiety tests can send them over the edge. If the test is timed they should be allowed extra
A school’s job is to teach students the skills they need to go to college or to get a job. It is hard to determine where the line should be drawn on schools helping unmotivated students. Teenagers are hard to reason with, if they don’t want to do something it will be very hard to get them to do it. A school can not provide help to every single unmotivated student, but they can provide interventions to students with lower grades to ask why they aren’t doing well. These interventions will help many kids, not just kids with anxiety. Anxiety is a debilitating mental illness that affects motivation, you can’t just think positive or shake off the fear. It is very hard to get over anxiety, and it is a very personal illness. Interventions would give students with anxiety a chance to speak up and talk about their …show more content…
Under the individuals with disability act (IDEA) section 300.600 State monitoring and Enforcement, “ b) The primary focus of the State's monitoring activities must be on-- (1) Improving educational results and functional outcomes for all children with disabilities; and (2) Ensuring that public agencies meet the program requirements under Part B of the Act, with a particular emphasis on those requirements that are most closely related to improving educational results for children with disabilities” (IDEA.ed.gov). This regulation is put in place so students with disabilities, mental or physical, receive help in school that improves educational results and outcomes for all students. Public schools are required by law to help students, who have a grant from the from the government, to help students with mental and physical disabilities. Anxiety is a mental disability [illness], so by law state funded schools are required to give support to students with anxiety. The best way to get a student with anxiety to excel in school is to make them feel comfortable in and out of the classroom. For example, if a student with anxiety needs to do an oral presentation the teacher should give the student the option to present just to the teacher. Testing is stressful for any student, but for students with anxiety tests can send them over the edge. If the test is timed they should be allowed extra