Leah+M’s+2017+OpEd+Article

= We're Not Robots  = ====These days, going to school seems to be dreaded and high stress and anxiety levels are the norm. Studies have found the average anxiety level of a student is greater than that of a psychiatric patient in the early 1950s, yet we are still ignorant to the education system’s harm. ==== ====Perhaps a factory style education system worked a century ago, but it’s time for a change. We need to stop putting kids in this box and telling them to do the same thing. ==== ====You can’t think like that, take that back. Math, History, English, and Science are your path to success, there’s no other route. ==== ====This school system seems to have no shame telling us how to think and behave. If you don’t excel in a core subject, if you’re not a cookie cutter student, then you lose your way. ==== ====Five letters used as grades and filling in circles on tests are the centers of our stress. But how does this correlate to thriving in life, how can 7.5 billion people in the world all use the same pathway to success? ==== ====Everybody knows no two people are the same, we’re individuals with different brains and ideas which allow us to thrive. If a doctor gave the same prescription to each person, only a selected would benefit and not everyone would survive. ==== ====We need to reform this system more for the individual. Encourage students to be themselves and follow their passion rather than give them hell. ====