Teens pushed too hard blog

by Katie Jochems

Teenagers are expected to do way too much for the amount of time in a day. The average teen gets up around six in the morning to get ready to catch the bus around seven. They go to school for six hours, learning, testing, and teaching each other. For the older teens who have vehicles, it is after school that they must work and make money. Personally, I have over $500 in bills each month, so I have to work every day after school in order to be able to pay them. It is after work that the teens have to go home, try to find to eat something, then do their homework. There is little time to relax seeing that they are up until almost 10:00 at night finishing the work teachers send home with the students. Teens then have to go to bed and rise approximately seven hours later to do it all again. Compared to some adults, teens do more in one day then they do in three. Between school, work, homework, and trying to keep up a social life, teenagers are some of the busiest people one can find in this country.