It is thought by some people that, in order to make children achieve academic success, some subjects had better to being eliminated from their schedules, so that they could be focus on the real academic subjects. However, while I belive that it is true the fact that they are under a significant level of stress, I completely disagree that proposal will be beneficial for them.
With regards to the actual pressure under which the younger generation is, it is mainly generated for their parents who wants to see their chidren fulfill the success they would like to have had for themselves, or just to make them follow their same professional steps. That results in adults forceing, without realizing, their daughters and sons to keep focus on academic work, avoiding any possible distractor. For instance, some adults who didn’t have an opportunity to study in their adolescence, put all their attention to their children achiving it.
On the other hand, removing subjects as physical education, cookery, photography, etc. will no contribute to the young people concentration. On the contrary, it can result on the reverse effect, making children feel more pressured and, therefore, losing more easy their focus on academic work, as well as their motivation to study. That is because all those subjects known as non-academic serve as an escape, helping them to disconnect for a while. During these activities their minds are free of all academic pressure, and thanks to it, then they can return to their studies more liberated and, even, with an extra of motivation.
To conclude, although young people are currently going through a lot of academic pressure, eliminated some kind of subjects could just have an undesired effect on their perfomance.