Many students have activities after school or on the weekends. This could be anything from a weekly meeting with their friends to part-time jobs. This is a good thing, sometimes building their reputation with colleges or their overall resume. But sadly, sometimes these productive students have to be conflicted with school sometimes. Students have been overrun with work at school and then the hobbies they once found fun now just seem to be in the way.
First, it is very probable for students to feel overwhelmed in school. They have loads of homework and the teachers seem to be assigning so much work that does not allow free time to be a real option. And other times the students may have to skip school in order to make it to their activities. Leaving them more and more stressed and less active and happy.
Though some students may be using their activities for building their reputation or resume others have been using the opportunity to heal their mental health. And with schools causing the problem their mental health could decline, and they may even have to drop their hobby they tried so hard to get into.
Other than this, students may be conflicted with having to miss school or have long practices and/or rehearsals. Personally I have had to face many conflicting choices between my school work and hobby as I have been cast as an understudy of a lead in a show in hopes of boosting my resume as many others would to boost theirs in a sport or club. Now the real problem here is the play I am in takes place outside of school and is on a more professional level which means that I have to miss a minimum of four school days and have three-to-four-hour rehearsals almost every day.
Having to memories two parts of a script and being behind on schoolwork because of it is challenging and many other students can relate to this issue as they have to miss school for practice or for their club meetings. This causes students to have not only the work they were meant to do in the day to be undone but also homework. Their homework was already overwhelming as it was but now, they also have all the extra work to do as well as their hobby.
As seen previously they are conflicted and overworked. But some students are not as resilient as others and are forced to give up on their hobbies and those hobbies may lead to the job or thing they have always dreamed of doing. So in a way the amount of work forced onto them making them quit their hobbies may lead to them giving up on their dreams or in other words school is taking their dream from them and restricting them by making them have to give up on what they want to do, and be conflicted often.
Some may say the students had chosen the activity and knew the consequences and taken the risk. But should students not be allowed to have their moments that help them grow the way they want to? No, Students should be able to be taught the things they want to be and learn the things they need. School only exists to teach the students what they need to know.
These activities are meant to teach the students what they want to know, and they should not be conflicted because of it. These are learning and growing opportunities for their future, and they should not be restricted from it or lose the grade that they earned in order to partake in their extracurricular activities.
Not to mention some students are employed and have to spend more time in their job and their activities depending on what they do. Thankfully students do not often have to miss school for their job but with them having a job homework is harder for them to complete since they have that, and in some special cases they have to work and do their activities making them lose even more time.
So, in all they have school, work and activities, leading the students to have little to no free time to unstress. And these students are being productive and active just as the school has told them to be, yet they seem almost punished for doing so thanks to all the extra work they have and also the declining grade in special cases.
It is worth noting that the school encourages kids to be active outside of school, yet it seems when they are they are overworked and sometimes failing classes thanks to them being active. And it seems the same teachers that encourage this have no sympathy for the students they stress. So students even if they are unemployed are overworked and almost punished because of their out of school activities.