Dating to drinking to dropping out
This is
surely an article that hits home. Does
an active romantic life hurt study habits and academic performance, or is this
article making the wrong links? Does it
also lead to more substance abuse as this article claims? What do you think about the study’s validity
(follow the link to find out more)?
First of all, I think that academic results do not show that unsuccessfully just because of dating as stated in the article, it depends on the student´s interest in studying. If a student who does not care about his new knowledge finds a partner of the same disinterest, than it is of course true that the student has worse results. This student can be influenced more by the partner, and becomes more confident in not filling the tasks or making homework. Even in these school failures the students know they have a support in their partners and so they do not feel guilty or unsatisfied about themselves.
ReplyDeleteHowever, there are couples who do have successful results in school. In these couples is enough if only one half is interested in studying. For example a girl can help her boyfriend with homework and studying. She may force him to work as hard as he can and to put the best effort in his work. Also, the boy might not want to feel ashamed in front of his girlfriend and so he tries to do his best.
Secondly, dating middle school students meet twice more with bad habits because of today modern teenage life. As these students reach thirteen they are trying to be cool and keep themselves in the middle of the most popular and fearful crew of their class. They find boyfriend or girlfriend, who is also part of this class crew, end even though they might not love each other, at least they can kiss in front of their single classmates and make themselves older, simply because that it is cool. They are usually also not smart and brave enough to say no and they get in trouble for getting drunk and taking illegal substances. They go out till late night and in school they do not work as hard as they should because it is not cool enough for the top class and, moreover, girls especially try to get on higher level of popularity by losing their virginity. In case of getting pregnant they can ruin own lives as well the lives of their children in a very young age. They have to live either with baby or with the feel of guilt because of interruption.