Jane is a tenth grade student of Montessori High. One the average, she is a student with a lot of potentials, lively, jovial and she demonstrates a passion for her academics. At first, her teacher called noticed that she was always gloomy in class. It was later noticed that she was involved in brawling with students of the school four blocks away. She started skipping classes and she was known for her deviant behavior. The question is what happened to this lovely kid? Jane and other more students are experiencing this day to day in America. You might first be wondering, what I mean but it is very simple and in fact a very common phenomenon, that is if you ever saw a candle gradually burning itself out, so you will not have problem with what I have to discuss.
Students burn out! As do candles, as do bonfires and as do machines. If the body can be seen and appreciated as a working factory, of a great dictator where the only break you have is when you are at your quarters sleeping at night, then again, you will certainly have no problem understanding this.
The way humans respond to the same stimuli will vary 1001 times as many humans as every person. Narrowing this down to Students, the way students "communicate" with their body is as different as Pastors will conduct a Mass. Now, some students will view school as an unending retrace, others as something "they" say you must do. With a preset mentality of going through an endurance test, then it is very easy to lose focus and lose momentum as well. What I'm I saying? That Student burn out start with the psychology, it is a function of personality, social support and workload (in their order of gravity). However, some school of though will disagree with me. Burnout is a psychological term for the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest (depersonalization or cynism), usually in the work context. It is also used as an English slang term to mean exhaustion. Burnout is often construed as the result of a period of expending too much effort at work while having too little recovery, but it is sometimes argued that workers with particular personality traits (especially neuroticism) are more prone to experiencing burnout. Further, it appears that researchers disagree about the nature of burnout. While many researchers argue that burnout refers exclusively to a work-related syndrome of exhaustion and depersonalization/cynicism, others feel that burnout is a special case of the more general clinical depression or just a form of extreme fatigue/exhaustion (thus omitting the cynicism component).
Student burnout does not happen suddenly, it is a gradual process. A student's anger, deviance, sadness, gradual loss of interest in attending school or doing his home work, not keeping pace with classroom activities, nonchalant attitude, jumpy nerves, a short temper e.t.c. are some the symptoms of students burnout. A student may start becoming angry at people and about things; screaming, fighting, abuse of the person and/or others set in. This newly observed behavior may not be tolerated by his teacher and peers. Feelings of frustration, rejection and aloneness set in. The student thinks he/she is alone in the war and a sense of rebellion is built. The student becomes in deviance with the teacher, peers and school. He finds it difficult to keep up in class and detest association with the people he strongly resent. He is sad and may have problems in communicating with others, eat less and sleep less. By the time all this is happening to him, he is spent, beat and tired out of every academic control.
