Problem and Struggles

I feel that students at Bell high school face the problems of peer pressure and strong influence from the media. Students decide who they hang around with but sometimes you may not have a choice and are led to do things you don't feel comfortable with. Even the school pressure students to do certain things such as, 'do this survey', 'pay this much for an event unless it's cancel.' Although it may seem harmless, school places more pressure on students in succeeding and prospering in life but of course that is a good thing, but many take it too much pressure and drive themselves crazy doing the best they can. Another struggle students here in Bell face is the impact of the media. The media is taken extremely serious in our school to the point where we are on it 24/7 (yes even in class, sorry). We are so dependable on our phones that many student lack focus and are more attentive of 'who wore what to where', 'where the next party is,' 'what she said about her on Twitter,' even 'what color the dress was.' Instead of being 100% concentrated in class we are probably down less than half of focus. As many rules and regulations this school places on cellphone use in class, student never listen and because of that they face the difficulty to pass their classes. We are now providing more intersession than last year and people are even failing their AP classes! I really do think that this is because of pure pressure in doing bad things and the dependency of our cellphones and what the media has to say at every minute.