HCHS culture

The culture at my school (HCHS) can be characterized in two words: People Pleasing. We, as a community, are totally focused on pleasing other people. Teachers work to please their bosses, kids work to please their parents, their peers, their teachers, the colleges they are applying to, and everyone is trying to please God. This type of culture leads to a stressful atmosphere where they often don't please themselves. Us kids are always on the go working towards some goal where we aim high and aim to please. Also this kind of attitude causes us to put everything we do in a day into a check list: get an A on my anatomy test-check, go to practice-check, have diner with family-check, hang out with friend-check. This check list attitude causes us to only halfheartedly participate in everything we do and we do these things because we feel like we have to. It is an endless cycle of running through the motions everyday, and i would know because i have experienced it and all my friends have too. This school is an excellent place to learn, but i don't feel like it is healthy that they push us so hard all the time. They also should not encourage us to participate in as many activities as possible, because it is impossible to keep up grades, participate in X amount of activities and sleep on a regular basis. I learned all of this the hard way.