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The High School Years
High school years are filled with challenges, intense work loads, competing demands, and changes in your bodies, minds and emotions. By definition, this type of environment will be stressful. But the important question is not 'how stressful is school' but rather 'how does one manage these stresses?'
-Janet Maurer, Germantown Academy Director of Counseling
What do you know about staying in school...that might change someone else's life forever? Each day, more than 1,200 young men and women give up on their high school education.
