stressed out students

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/education/29stress.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

The principle of Needham High School, Paul Richards, has been getting heat in the form of hate mail and mockery for trying to reduce the stress of his students. After four Needham students committed suicide, the school district began its search for reducing stress. The Stress Reduction Committee isn't lowering expectations for students, it is finding healthy, realistic opportunities and goals for students to aim for. Instead of packing on an unhealthy schedule of strictly AP classes, sports teams, and student groups, the committee is aiming to reduce the workload of struggling students. The school isn't publishing where seniors are going to college in the yearbook because it has caused students in the past to lie, ashamed at the state schools they were about to attend. Yoga and relaxation classes are being taught as well.