High School Work Stress

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We all know High school is not that easy, there is too much work to be finished but in all this the teacher forgets that students need to have a social life as well as education. Students have six more classes and to do all the work together is not possible. A person does not gain the experience by reading textbooks, they learn by going out in the world and experiencing.
All high school students are in their teenage years, that is the most crucial time of a person’s life, everyone is changing physically and biologically. According to a survey, the maximum no. of people getting anxiety, insomnia and going into depression are high school teenagers due to school work stress, personal relationships and bullying.
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