Stress begins to rise in schools all across the country as the state testing draws near. Students feel this stress, as do teachers, their families and friends. The relief once the test is over is huge, yet with the lingering wonder as to whether or not the students did well enough to help the school pass AYP.
It is important that even with the overwhelming importance of No Child Left Behind and making Annual Yearly Progress, that teachers keep in mind the importance of the task at hand. It is a given that teachers are going to teach to the test as much as possible, but that should not be at the expense of the education of each child in the classroom.
It’s important to keep students calm and stress free. Allowing excess stress will only create potential health issues and prevent further learning from happening. While some stress is good to ensure students try their best, excess stress is detrimental to the end goal of higher test scores and educated children.
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As to what people today call “stress”, I think we have suffered some dumbing-down. I was 10 in the Cuban Missile crisis, and remember lessons at school being given over to things like how to survive the USSR’s possible nuclear attack – what to do in the event of a 4-minute-warning of an missile attack on London, how to hide, what to hide under, what to put in a box in the cellar for later, and so on.