How could starting at a new school affect your mental health?

Pattie Vold: Well it can be pretty stressful. So that would affect mental and emotional health.

Brian Marquina: Make a list of things that someone could go through or feel when starting a new school. Include things that you think could happen to others, not just to yourself. Then choose some of them and base you assignment on those things from your brainstorming list. Could be starting a new school because the family had to move to a smaller place after parent's job loss. New house, no money, new school would cause lots of emotional health.Could be that parent's separated and student moved out and away from abusive father.Could be that new school has a very different social climate than old school and student feels might not fit it. Ex. going from an inner city school to suburbs, or private school back to public school.If just moving across town to an area that is in a different attendance area and therefore a new school, at least the student would still be i! n the same area - same stores, same sports teams, same local TV channels. What if the student had to change to a new state, far away, and everything familiar was changed? Lots of mental and emotional stress there.The scheduling could affect health. What if in the old school the student could get up at 7 and make to class for an 8:00 start because lived really close and could walk. What if in new school, student has to get up super early at 5:45 to catch a 6:45 bus for a 7:30 start? Upsetting the while morning routine can really affect health. Not enough sleep.Could be stressful if the student was in French 3 and Trig in the old school, but the same classes in the school seem more advanced and the student doesn't feel up to that level. There is the obvious one of not knowing anyone or even where to go in the building....Show more