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Tiger Times

The School Newspaper of Texas High School

Tiger Times

Academic pressure weighs on students constantly throughout the year. This can lead to many mental issues for struggling students: anxiety, burnout, fatigue and much more.

Pressure to perform

Story by Sage Stussy, Staff Writer February 24, 2026

Students leave school every day with piles of homework, lengthy to-do lists and newfound anxiety. The constant thought of getting good grades swirls around students’ brains. There will always be another...

Usually, students show signs of stress after the first few months of the school year. The difficulty of junior year varies from the rest of high school, which creates a pathway for suffocating anxiety to make an appearance every morning and remain throughout the day.

Before the End

Story by Jillian Tyler, Staff Writer February 9, 2026

Junior year in a nutshell: a student wakes up in a cold sweat after realizing they forgot to do the essay for AP English last night. This stress multiplies because of the infamous Friday night football...

Started in the late 1700s, the numerical grading system has become common- place in the schools across America. That said, it is an antiquated system, often not reflecting the actual integrity of those under it.

Numbers don’t lie, or do they?

Story by Kateleigh Crowson, staff writer December 10, 2024

In schools all across the nation and world, the workload of assignments, tests, quizzes, extracurriculars and schoolwork pile up in what seems to be a never-ending cycle. These assignments shape the current...

The allure of life out of school is fueling burnout and the trend of quiet quitting.

Quiet quitting

Story by Sophie Keller, Web Master September 28, 2022

The new school year has just started, and already students are feeling the pressure of grades and homework weighing down on them. So soon life has already become a balancing act once more. We’re forced...

Students labeled as "gifted" early on in their school career often end up feeling overwhelmed with expectations and school.

Feel the burnout

Story by Stephanie Jumper, Editor-in-Chief May 18, 2022

The dreary eyes. The brain that exerts all of its energy on assignments only to end up drooling on them when the exhaustion is too much to bear. The heartbreak of receiving a less than stellar grade when...

Burnouts have bad turnouts

Burnouts have bad turnouts

Story by Reese Langdon, Feature Editor October 14, 2021

It’s one in the morning. You just finished your dreadful math homework, read the last chapters of a grueling novel assignment and studied for both your science and Spanish tests that, of course, they...

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Battling burnout

Story by Doug Kyles, staff writer March 13, 2020

The “King of YouTube” PewDiePie, vlog-star Elle Mills and parody creator Alex Wassabi are all wildly successful in their own right. Between them, millions of fans check in every time they upload on...

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