Article:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/upshot/worried-about-risky-teenage-behavior-make-school-tougher.html

This article is about the correlation between the difficulty of school and risky behaviour among teens.  This article interested me because of how school is currently affecting my life and I was interested to see what is happening on a broader spectrum.  The author had a good style and writing because he was objective and because he expressed his points through the example of graduation requirements changing, requiring more courses and as a result risky behaviours such as drinking have dropped among teens.  This article raises the question: Should school be harder to try eliminate bad behaviour for good?  I think that no matter how hard they make school, there will always be some kids who don’t care about there future and will not try and get into bad habits, but for regular kids who care about their future this could be a positive thing for them in the long run and gives them less opportunity for risky behaviour.  It also will make kids mentally stronger and more resiliant for future challenges when they go to university and will all-round improve the rate of advancement in society, since kids will generally become smarter.