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Is school is bad for your mental health?
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School is bad for your mental health.
Pros
Cons
Compulsory education means that young children are separated from their families from an early age. This can be distressing.
The national curriculum forces children to learn what the state wishes and this is not aligned to an individual's personal interests and goals.
Exam pressures mean that many children and young people experience stress regularly throughout their education.
Schools expect and encourage
conformity
.
School are low consequence environments where children and young people are able to develop their skills and competencies in a risk managed environment. This enables them to integrate into the adult world when they are ready to do so.
Schools provide the necessary basic resources to learn and to include all possibilities of interests students may enjoy.
Bullying, stress, and conflict are what
affects mental health
, not school itself.
Most citizens attend school (as children or adults) and have good mental health.
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