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USA
Benjamin Quinto
Yes, I have heard that at some of the ivy-league schools, in particular Harvard University, of several students committing suicide around finals time.
Reason:
Our education system really depresses me, failing the students miserably in primary and secondary school, then putting tertiary school out of financial reach for most. The ivy-league schools (top ones) put an overwhelming burden on their students as well.
Australia:
Tannie Kwong,
No it does not happen here.
Reasons:
It's really the COMPETITION people get when make them depressed
Solutions:
Obviously, there AREN'T any head on way to attach this problem. Maybe counseling (maybe though) will help. Maybe, because of stress...
Greece
Spiros Tzelepis
Such phenomena are few.
Reason:
They happen they are usually related to personal and family problems and they are not exclusively due to the pressure posed upon the students by the educational system.
Solutions:
Best solution is understanding and patience from the side of parents as well as psychological support so that the person is helped to overcome his problems.
South Korea
Yi juing Kim
Such things happen a lot here.
Reasons:
I think it's because of stress and feeling that they are losers when they fail their university entrance exams. In South Korea, there is one more important reason is getting admissions in a good university which, is one of the most important things in person's life. So, when students get bad score it's difficult to be accepted in the good university then, they commit suicide.
Solutions:
Maybe change of education system (in the case of South Korea) if the education system can be changed in the way that every student can find out their special ability not from 'score' but from some creative activity in school.
China - Hong Kong:
Teresa Tse
Yes, this does happen there.
Reasons:
In Primary 6, students who do not do well in school cannot be admitted into 'brand-name' schools. These brand-name schools are usually ones that have a very long history or have past students that are public figures. Most parents are especially keen on their children entering these schools because they believe that their children will have a 'promised' future if they study at one of these schools. Usually pressure from parents to get into a good school, or to do well in public exams. I haven't heard of students who take the public exams first and then commit suicide, they usually commit suicide before they take the exams because it's the pressure that they cannot deal with.
Solutions:
As I have just taken my public exams, the torture of public exams is still fresh in my mind. You cannot sleep and when you do, you feel like you haven't studied anything at all during the day and then you stay up for the rest of the night worrying. You also get sick really easily, I remember that I was so sick that I had to go to the doctor 3 times in a
week. I think it really helps to talk to friends who are taking the exam with you because they understand what's happening and how you feel, it really helped me. There will be a time when you're studying that you ask yourself why you're doing this or you feel like you're going to give up, but just set your goals (make sure it's realistic) and keep your mind focused on it.
China
Jeff Gu
Reason:
China has its national university entrance examination and that's the most important exam, probably, in one student's life. Because of the large number of students, the pressure and competition for this exam is extremely intense. Students spent their past 12 years study, to some extent, preparing for this exam and there will be no additional chances. So failure of enrolling at one satisfying university will crash some students' courage, since family and teachers have looked them high. This situation is exacerbated in the poor region of China, since the students' family have devoted everything they have for their study. Last year, some student's committed suicide just in this case.
Solution:
The solution is to make people aware of various success paths so they won't put
everything they have on the weight of this exam. Second is to set up more
universities and colleges. Third is to control population growth rate. The most
important method is to alter people's narrow mind and focus on this exam and make
various success paths truly practical. This two side's implementation will be
effective to the situation in China in my point of view.
Canada:
Jacqueline Wright
Teen suicide because of exam results may happen, but would be pretty unusual. I hear that teen suicide has increased in Canada, but I think usually because of loneliness and stuff like that.
I think lots of organizations in Canada are trying to help, but it must be hard as it keeps happening.
South Africa
Mary Carman
Heard of it occasionally but not a grave problem here.
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