The number of students who are feeling stressed or overwhelmed seems to be increasing, so the RCHS Torch staff decided to see if there was really a problem.  To determine whether students have a problem with stress, we gave 14 students a survey about stress. The survey asked a range of questions to estimate a student’s stress level.

The survey revealed that if a student is in honors or AP classes they seem to spend anywhere between three to six hours doing homework with almost no free time.

Morgahann Hughes, a junior with two Advanced Placement classes and three honors courses, said, “I spend almost all my night trying to finish my homework and don’t have any free time, honestly.”

It also seems that if a student is involved in multiple clubs or sports, they seem to have very little free time and can spend over four hours doing homework.

Azalynn Robinson, a junior who is involved in basketball and track, responded when asked how much free time she had she answered, “None.”

The survey was not just to see if students are stressed but also if they have a problem with stress and how they deal with it.

Most people responded when asked how they dealt with stress, that they talked to friends or parents, would listen to music or even meditate.

Junior Thomas Brown said, “I just go with the flow.”

But it seems even if students are stressed they do not seem to have a problem with stress, out of the fourteen students only three said that they had a problem dealing with stress.