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Students are stressed, and no one seems to care

Published:Friday | May 28, 2021 | 12:09 AM

THE EDITOR, Madam:

I am a student currently in sixth form and I haven’t learnt anything from last year March when coronavirus hit us.

We are just depressed with the whole situation. When we write the examinations and the results come out, you’ll hear Jamaica having the lowest passing marks, and guess who is getting the blame for it – it is us, the students. Half of us who are writing exams don’t have electronic devices, Internet nor even a stable environment at home. But they just are just pressuring us to do our best, and believe me, we are actually trying to do our best. Some of us right now are even receiving mock exams at school.

They are not taking our mental state into consideration. All that is being done now is not helping us in any way. This year’s CSEC students are basically on the back burner because, if you think about it, students from last year got more time in class and in school than those of us who are now scrambling to finish the syllabi in a hurry. We are trying to learn faster but all it has done is to force our brain, which is already stressed, to be more stressed.

Students in Jamaica and other Caribbean islands are depressed, we can’t handle CXC and CAPE exams and the online schooling. We aren’t learning a thing. It’s stressing, I swear.

The children are the future, treat us like it and respect our opinions and just give us Paper One only to do.

CONCERNED STUDENT