Zachary's Classroom

     This week we got to chose our own topics to write about. I decided to write about how school affects the mental health of the students. This is was a pretty interesting topic to read about since I am a high school student that doesn't have the best mental health. As I was doing research I found a survey from 2015 from the American College Health Association that 30 percent of college students feel stressed out because of school, 22 percent of them have anxiety related to school topics, and 20 percent recorded that they have sleep difficulties. ( Suicide Prevention Resource Center )  What I found interesting was that only 14 percent of students suffer from depression. While most kids say they have depression as a joke or when they feel sad for a few hours. So I figured that number would be higher than it is.  The article also talked about how depression is usually linked to kids dropping out of school.            ...

This week, I read two different articles, the first one was called UNH Grade Rules, which focuses on how the grading systems work for that university and what the level grades are. The second article I read was Kids Web Japan, this article talked about how the school systems work in Japan. While reading the articles I noticed that schools in New Hampshire and Japan are similar but also are very different. One idea that I found interesting was that Japan’s high schools are only grades 10-12 and the middle schools are 7-9. I thought it was interesting because our school at Hopkinton High School is in the 7th and 8th grade and then high school is 9th through 12th. Something else that I thought was interesting is that schools in Japan don't have cleaning crews to clean the schools. The teachers and students are required to clean their own classrooms. Most schools in New Hampshire have a janitor to clean the lunchrooms, bathrooms, and classrooms.  Even though the schools are different...