From the beginning of high school, students buckle their seat belts and prepare for one of the most vigorous competitions of their lives: achieving success. With the rare occurrence of a break, kids are expected to continue driving as fast and with as much power as possible in order to get into a "big" college, followed by graduate school and then a real job which would constitute a job. a lot of money. In American society, common values ​​include hard work, determination, and being so productive that free time isn't even an issue. However, this philosophy is taking a toll on American college and high school students. For at least 40 years, America's future has been consistently demotivated, tired, and hopeless due to an overemphasis on academic achievement. This phenomenon is adequately exposed in the book “College Pressures” by William Zinsser, which examines the four main sources of tension that cause these feelings of dejection and agitation. After reading this article, I found some solutions to this national problem. It's time to change the harsh and over-encouraging green light of education to a comfortable yellow light. To make this ideal transition, education leaders across the country must first reduce the amount of out-of-class homework, ease the grading system, and include days in the school year that allow students to express their thoughts about school and provide useful feedback. The first important step to healing America's exhausted teenagers is to reduce the amount of homework they receive. Fourteen to twenty-two year olds are expected to play sports, join clubs, and hang out with friends, all on top of an average of three and a half hours of h...... middle of paper. .....integration of student-faculty conferences, educational facilities will become places full of smiling and brilliant scholars. As a current high school student, it is very easy to see these problems in the education system. Every day I walk the halls next to exhausted zombies debating whether they should use their lunch break to ask for math help at the library or sacrifice a bat so they can read an anatomy chapter that isn't even related to what they're talking about in class. Due to ever-increasing competition and the resulting rising standards of achievement, children's academic and emotional prosperity will only worsen. When I am an adult and have children, there is nothing more I would like to see on their long journeys to high school than an improvement in the education system, so that they don't have to struggle to go to school, my peers and I did.