{"id":163887,"date":"2015-07-04T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=163887"},"modified":"2015-07-04T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T16:53:00","slug":"young-students-mental-breakdown-uk-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/young-students-mental-breakdown-uk-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"Young students \u201cmental breakdown\u201d over UK exams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"item-text\">\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: black;\">Young students, aged 10 and 11, are going in to \u201ccomplete meltdown\u201d over exams in the UK <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Children as young as 10 are suffering from stress, anxiety and mental health problems as they go in to \u201ccomplete meltdown\u201d over exams and testing at schools, teachers have warned.<\/p>\n<p>A new report by the National Union of Teachers says teachers says the problem is at \u201cunprecedented levels\u201d with young students becoming sick during tests, becoming depressed, self-harming or even attempting suicide.<\/p>\n<p>The report says that competitive parents are making the problem even worse, and that the heavy testing of children in the UK school system is leading to problems of low motivation and self-esteem if the rigid testing system leaves a child with a low performance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/07\/04\/418756\/-UK-exams-cause-student-mental-breakdown\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young students, aged 10 and 11, are going in to \u201ccomplete meltdown\u201d over exams in the UK Children as young as 10 are suffering from stress, anxiety and mental health problems as they go in to \u201ccomplete meltdown\u201d over exams and testing at schools, teachers have warned. A new report by the National Union of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":163888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1615],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-163887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-uk-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}