Can I ask how many elementary/middle school/high school kids you have worked with?

I fucking was one?

You aren't "most people" though.

Aw good for you! Give yourself a nice pat on the back :)

You have no way of knowing that.

I do because I went to school and interacted with other students. Yeah, kids run into tough stuff growing up, but that's life. To say school = stress for most needs backing up.

Exactly the same amount of backing up as "school != stress for most" does.

No it doesn't. Where are all the articles and stories from the last, oh idk, couple hundred years about how everyone is miserable at school? Sure, no one likes homework, but if you've ever been in a school, most people are having a good time.

Can we stop normalizing trauma and problems with ones social life? It's not the norm, stop pretending it is.

They're all over the place. Have you ever read essays by British, Japanese, Indian, Singaporean people describing their and their friends' mental state throughout schooling over the past several centuries?

School is also becoming more and more stressful as smaller and smaller metrics were tracked. When my grandfather went to school his parents were sent one report cars twice a year. When my father went to school his parents were sent four report cards per year. When I went to school my parents were sent twelve report cards per year, and they started experimenting with an online system to track every grade on every assignment. Now that my young cousins are in school even their classroom participation can be tracked.

Any survey of modern schoolkids that asks about anxiety or depression has enormous rates of response in the positive.

Yes, it does. Just because one of them matches your personal anecdote doesn't waive the requirement for actual evidence.

I'm glad to hear you had a good school life. Most people aren't that lucky.

Well, I did read this article that said that school attendance increased youth suicide incidents between 12-18 percent. I wonder where I could find that... Oh wait, that's the thread we are talking about.

12 to 18 percent of what? .001%?

Worst time of my life. Thankfully my kids are not like me, but I do carefully watch for signs of trouble.

You seem weirdly insistent about this. About 20% of high school students consider ending their life and plenty more are managably miserable. This alone would seem to suggest that bad experiences are fairly common. My own was a shit experience from start to finish that could have profitably been replaced by a well chosen youtube playlist.

You're going to need a citation for that one.