The Overachievers Essay

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The Overachievers Re-write Imagine taking seven AP classes and have taken over 28 AP classes when graduating high school. Sounds impossible, right? Over the past couple of decades, the environment and way of learning at school has drastically changed into a more stressful and unfriendly school life. “This is a book about how a culture of overachieverism has changed the school experience so drastically in even the last ten years that it has startlingly altered what it means to be a student today” (Robbins 14). Alexander Robbins, the author of The Overachievers, shows the readers what life is like as an overachiever in high school through great research and being able to follow the lives of high school students. Robbins wants readers to know how hard it is to be a student in high school and the struggles that students go through. The authors point was to argue that the factors of life in high school such as parents, teachers, AP classes, and colleges are affecting students’ physical and emotional health in a harmful way rather than helping to develop students’ education and life. Robbins stresses her argument to prove her point by giving the readers a look into some of the lives of high school overachievers: AP Frank, Julie, and Audrey. From the moment a student begins school, there will be a parent or form of parent, to watch over and make sure to receive a good education. Some parents tend to be more harsh and brutal to confirm that than others. Throughout the book, Robbins includes a very fascinating individual, AP Frank. Having an Asian parent, AP Frank had to endure constant pressure and great amount of obedience. Robbins brought in AP Frank to show direct information concerning parental brutality and the effects of a student’s high school life “ Like AP Frank, Asian- American students in the United States often speak of relentless pressure and expectations

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