Reply To: Did School become too stressful for our kids?

Like most of these issues, the answer is a firm YES and NO. Obviously, much depends on the individual child, the school that he/she attends, the type of home-life they have outside of school and so many other variables. Yes, some schools can be very competitive and create stress for their students, but so can some parents who put pressures on their kids to excel and perform even when the schools they attend aren’t so demanding. I would be reluctant to generalize on a question that is so fact and case-specific.
P.S. Its only been about 6 weeks since most of the schools were closed and about 2 weeks of that time the kids would have been home anyway because of Pesach. Ask them the same question by the end of August if you still have them locked in the closet because of “social distancing” and you may find they would like nothing better than to be back in their “stressful” classrooms.