Over scheduled Students in Today's Time

  In today's society school has changed so much. I remember my 8th grade teacher looking at our class and saying, "I don't know how you guys do it, when I was in school, everything was so much simpler. We didn't have so much homework, as strong as testing and all the regulations you guys have today." This statement hit me hard because I never realized this until my 8th grade teacher said this. I continued on in school as the average high school student and went on to earn my diploma and to get accepted to SUNY Plattsburgh where I would try to live the college dream. My parents didn't make much money so to me tuition wasn't a burden for me. I believed that FASFA would cover a good portion of it. Along with the tuition there is a college bill for attending the school per semester. On my behalf I didn't have to pay for my college bill. My mother covered it for me due to me receiving a good amount of money for my Financial aid. Once in college and whilst being in high school, I worked a job, I played sports, I had chores, I had homework and had bills to pay. Life doesn't seem to get any easier as I grow up and I feel this is due to society changing and people getting so use to how school was for them. A time of day from 7-3 that you have been told for the last 12 years of public school to tell you to go to and attend and finish. I feel there is too much pressure. It also doesn't help where in today's day and age kids are so judgmental and mean. School isn't and won't be easy and it seems it's not getting any easier. In my opinion, something needs to change because it's just going to get worse and worse.