The Pressures on Teenagers

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The Pressures on Teenagers

Today’s teenagers are unruly and lack concentration. Their lack of concentration is a result of the plethora of distractions in society. Teenagers should be taught discipline and mobile phones, computer games etc should be banned from the age or 14 to 16. This would enable all teenagers to fulfil their potential at GCSE level.

In today’s society there are many pressures in the lives of teenagers. The tornado of school crashes through their lives causing destruction and chaos. This destruction causes so many demands and deadlines, that teenagers find it hard to cope. From this they turn to easier, less demanding options. These options come in the form of distractions, which range from material goods to unruly behaviour. They prefer to focus on places of relaxation than the turmoil of school. The answer to this problem in not to push these teenagers to different distractions, but to pull them back to education. The banning of commercial distractions would not make a substantial difference. If anything it would prove to be counter affective, as teenagers would turn to more extreme distractions from the pressure. We need to help to level out the lives of teenagers, instead of weighing them down with a whirlwind of stress and strain.

        In the twenty-first century teenagers find it hard to keep their lives in balance. On one side of the scales is their social lives, and on the other, the unappealing load from school life. For many this side of the scales is leaning off balance. In it contains constant floods of coursework, storms of exam revision, and volcanoes filled with hot air and pressure. These pressures explode repeatedly from teachers and parents. Teenagers themselves want to achieve, but the lava flow of work and pressure emitting from higher powers, appears too frightening, and forces them to run away. Teenagers find it hard to stand up to these cataclysmic pressures, but they will never stand down to the banning of the objects that they enjoy using and have the privilege to possess. In a teenager’s life scales they have to have a balance. To keep it level with the anguish of school, material goods act a main equaliser. The immoral act of restricting such items will not only prove to be an impossible task, but will cause earthquakes of demonstrations and protesting. We pride our country for being listeners of every comment, and considerers of everyone, but when we ignore the words and lives of teenagers, we go back on everything this country is suppose to be. By not consulting our teenagers on why they lack concentration, and going straight in declaring a ban of material goods, we are no better than a country living in a dictatorship. Our country is above such actions, and the teenagers of today know this well. Such actions will cause uproar among all teenagers, and all teenagers will turn their backs on school completely. They will distinguish this as a violation of Human Rights, and see for sure that adults do not trust them. These teenagers are the next generation. They are the people that will keep our country where it is in society. To display our mistrust now will reflect in their lives when they are adults. If they turn their backs on school, our future country will be laid on the uneducated, and fall into depths of recklessness, where no one cares for others well being or democracy. It is their future that we hold in stake.

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        Teenagers already face an uncertain future, and have only glimpsed the harsh realities of finding a job in the competitive world. Some have ideas of the occupation they want to undertake when they are older, but to do this they need certain grades. As they try to achieve these grades they pressurize themselves to get the best result, but then pressures start to come from different directions. Some come in the form of the need to be computer literate, as today’s world stands on technology. Others come in the form for the need to be able to communicate, as many ...

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