Essay On Student Anxiety

Today anxiety in students is moving to a lower and lower age. Twenty-five percent of students between the ages of thirteen and fourteen have anxiety. As time goes on anxiety is increasing in students. Most adults brush it off and don’t think it is an issue, but in all reality it is because the age of students who are being affected by this gets younger and younger. Soon enough children will no longer have a childhood because they are too worried about impressing adults with knowledge and doing well in school. The biggest issues that cause student’s anxiety are safety drills, increased expectations for student’s school work, and bullying in schools.
One of the biggest factors that increase anxiety is safety drills. Safety drills include fire drills, tornado drills, and intruder drills. According to W. Fermont “Literature suggests that the threat of crisis events can negatively affect children's anxiety levels” (Zhe and Nickerson). This is one of the most important facts to take to mind because these drills putting the idea into children’s minds that schools, which are supposed to be one of the safest places, are now one of the most dangerous places. “Controversy exists over whether students should participate in drills. It has been argued that …show more content…
So instead of school administration making expectations higher and thinking students are not trying hard enough, they should take into account all the research school induced anxiety. This would help produce better and happier students. Not only would students learn more they would also have higher test scores and it would lower the percentage of high school dropouts. Schools would have maximum high school graduates and more students would be likely to continue to a secondary education. This would be extremely crucial in most student’s lives after school to be qualified for careers and start great career