A survey published by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) during its annual conference in Liverpool during Easter blames the problems on the increasing stress that pupils are under, with a majority of respondents saying that testing and exams and an “over-crowded curriculum” are partly to blame.
One school counsellor at an independent school in Warwickshire said: “I feel angry on our young people’s behalf. Our young people seem to be on this constant treadmill of achievement, spending hours linked to a computer, endlessly being ‘organised’. If they’re outside, it’s only for ‘sport’. They have no freedom. It’s not surprising they’re getting increasingly mentally ill.”
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