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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC's school (NCS) recently surveyed students and the responses support OP"s point. When asked about sources of pressure,  students ranked their responses like this: 1) themselves 2) parents 3) peers 4) teachers 5) admin.[/quote]
Interesting but I think this does not tell the whole story. 
The workload given is exceptionally high at NCS and schools that are similar. The parents and students put pressure on the students to do very well grade wise, like many other places. But it is the teachers and the admin who are comfortable assigning the sometimes excessive amount of work which negatively affects wellbeing.  The admin and the teachers never say to the kids “you need to be getting straight A’s”, they say “this is a place where people learn how to work hard and do hard things”. But they do assign too much work and the deflation of their grading practices inadvertently puts much more pressure on the upper school students who live in the real world and know that in order to get into the kinds of colleges many of them should be attending, given their abilities, they need to get high grades to compete against all the other students in the country. A basic survey question would likely not accurately describe the dynamic of where a lot of the “pressure” stems from at a school like NCS. [/quote]

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