Students' stress linked to class environment

Poor resources, rundown schools, teachers burnt out over discipline problems, low expectations, and a large number of peers below grade plus and an assortment of many other issues add up to a stressful and unhealthy environment and this is not to mention a place where education is supposed to be happening. What surprised me about this article was the fact that they felt a need to draw on research in order to justify that these factors are problematic for kids. What can I say? I know a 3rd grader that sadly and seriously lamented to his mother that school was like prison. He said "we move with bells, we eat at the same time, we walk in lines.. etc" he continued giving examples. His mother could only correct him in one way, which was to say "it is not a prison but an institution."