Teenagers are just misunderstood. This essay is going to tell you that actually we are very active.

A lot of us are interested in exercise and the majority of us take part in it. So it is unfair to label us as lazy when we are actually sporty. Many teenagers are in teams, but even if they are not in a team many teenagers still do sports. Whether it’s joining clubs after school or just on the weekend for fun.

We are still growing up, so we are not adults yet. So we have a lot of good potential because we still have a lot ahead of us, which means that when we are adults we could be a really nice person because we would have grown up.

We will have mood swings which means we won’t be happy all the time. We can’t control how we feel quite a lot of the time because of hormones.

We have odd sleep patterns which sometimes causes us to be in a bad mood. We have a lot of pressure on us because when you are a teenager you have high expectations from teachers, parents and peers. We can be stressed out quite a lot of time because a lot of things are troubling us; like high expectations, tests, homework  and many other things. When you were a teenager what were you like? When everybody gives you high expectations and it’s hard to fulfill them. We need more sleep than adults and babies but we can’t because our sleeping patterns are messed up. That is why we are always so tired. How would you like the system to work for teenagers?

I think schools should acknowledge this and make school opening times a bit later so that we can come into school more awake and ready for school, which means that students will be able to do more work and will be able to concentrate and behave well.

Schools need to know how we think things would work better for us, because if the system is better our education will be better because we will be getting more done in class and can contribute in class better. If the schools listen to us then it will benefit our education.

The point of school is so we can get an education, we can get a good job, have a good future and also there is a social aspect to school as well.

People think that we are lazy  but I think that we are not. As teenager my self I think we are just tired rather than lazy because I know being a teenager is quite tiring. When you were a teenager was life tiring for you?

As I said, we have weird sleeping patterns, this is the reason for teenagers being tired and this has been scientifically proven.

All adults have been teenagers and they need to remember what it was like from a teenagers point of view. So I think we should have a say in today’s society and then people would see a different point of view of teenagers.

We have a lot of stress, when we use our phone or play Xbox our parents think we are wasting our lives and they always say “you will not have a bright future wasting your life on games consoles.” We are relaxing! We have actually been studying in school for hours.

If the education system works to fit us then they can learn more and behave better.

If people ignored the stereotypes and allowed the system work for us then people will realise that we aren’t horrible or lazy; we are just misunderstood. We are decent people like everyone else.