Psychologist Robert Leahy points out: "The average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s." This is a surprising comparison to make, especially in 2015, when technology is believed to have eased everything around us, including education. But why on earth would Leahy compare a bunch of teenagers to a psychiatric patient?
Let’s begin with a calculation of free hours students have a week. In a 5 day school week there is 120 hours. Hercules High students spend 7 hours a day (not counting some students with an A period, which would make it 8 hours a day) at school, or 35 out of 120 hours a week, nearly 30%, which brings the free hours of each student to about 85. For students to be able to wake up early and have enough sleep, th
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