Every day, millions of high schoolers around the world complain about how much work they get. They procrastinate, putting their homework and assignments off until the last minute, where they rush to get them done, often staying up far too late than necessary just to turn something in. The problem isn’t what we think it is. It isn’t the teachers fault for giving us so much homework, or the coaches fault for making practice run late. It isn’t even your parents fault for making you sit down with the rest of the family and eat dinner together every night. It is most likely the students fault. Studies show that modern day teenagers spend around seven hours every day on a screen. Not accounting for schoolwork, teenagers spend around four to five hours on their phones every single day. Let’s assume that the school day ends at 2:00 for most high school students, they might have practice right after school until around 4:00, when they undoubtedly will want to come home and have something ...
