How Do You Deal With Stressful Situations In School?
• Ask the teacher for permission to leave the classroom. It is best to ask to go to the bathroom, because he or she will assume you have to. • Go to the bathroom if you really must. If you don’t have to, just walk around the school a few times, particularly near a quiet place such as the auditorium or the choir room. Take a drink if you need one. • Run a few laps or shoot a few hoops in the gym if it’s really bad. Most phys ed teachers won’t care and they’ll be happy if you got some exercise. Also, you might get extra credit from the gym teacher. • Get your CD player or iPod and listen to a few songs before you go back to class. Return to class all de-stressed and ready to move on with the day. Also, if you spent more than 5 minutes outside of the classroom, tell her that you really had to go potty. Or that you felt a little nauseous (queasy, sick) and had to sit down for a time to recover. Also, tell her you had a stomach ache so it took a while.
