Young students “mental breakdown” over UK exams
Young students, aged 10 and 11, are going in to “complete meltdown” over exams in the UK
Children as young as 10 are suffering from stress, anxiety and mental health problems as they go in to “complete meltdown” over exams and testing at schools, teachers have warned.
A new report by the National Union of Teachers says teachers says the problem is at “unprecedented levels” with young students becoming sick during tests, becoming depressed, self-harming or even attempting suicide.
The report says that competitive parents are making the problem even worse, and that the heavy testing of children in the UK school system is leading to problems of low motivation and self-esteem if the rigid testing system leaves a child with a low performance.
The author of the report, Merrun Hutchings says the problems are caused by children’s “greater awareness at younger ages of their own ‘failure’, and the increased rigour and academic demands of the curriculum.”
It is a curriculum that has become increasing crictised by education professionals, particularly under the former coalition government, when teachers were regularly striking over the Tory-led changes to the education system.
Hutchings says that “The increase in diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) has been shown to be linked to the increase in high-stakes testing. Thus it appears that some children are being diagnosed and medicated because the school environment has become less suitable for them, allowing less movement and practical work, and requiring them to sit still for long periods.”
The National Union of Students has called the report shocking and upsetting.
UK children have been found in several reports to be some of the most unhappy in the world, and teachers say that rigid testing in the education system could be contributing to this phenomenon.
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