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It is easy to agree that, in today’s society, it’s the expected norm for high school and college students to be spread thin between school work and an abundant amount of extra curricular activities; all for what? An extra line filled on a résumé? To many, this may seem a bit excessive, but to the students, it seems necessary to keep a competitive edge in order to be successful among their peers. Frank Bruni wrote a compelling article addressing why today’s students are far overworked. In Frank Bruni’s article entitled “Today’s Exhausted Superkids,” he effectively pushes his point, which is students are under a tremendous amount of pressure to succeed and gain a “competitive edge” to the point they are making decisions that can not only damage themselves, but their futures.
As a student taking advanced classes, I’m sure I can speak for kids countrywide under the same circumstances when I say there are rarely days that I am not overloaded with work. There are days when I am not sure that my teachers realize their class is definitely not the only class I take, and oddly enough, they are also not the first teacher to come up with the idea of lengthy homework assignments. …show more content…

In Frank Bruni’s article entitled “Today’s Exhausted Superkids,” he effectively pushes his point, which is students are under a tremendous amount of pressure to succeed and gain a “competitive edge” to the point they are making decisions that can not only damage themselves, but their futures. I hope that after reading Frank Bruni’s article, there will be a more widespread knowledge of the effects of the stress today’s AP students are

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