Is tearing up textbooks a good way to relieve stress?

seneca (Expat in China)

Besides being a shabby and disrespectful act, it also is a huge waste of resources. While the poor often complain about the cost of uniforms and textbooks, the pupils discard them as if they were rubbish when they leave school for good. I still have some of my schoolbooks, including my geography atlas, though completely out of date.

Students rip up their textbooks after the last class for the day, before the gaokao exam, at the Maotanchang High School in Lu'an, East China's Anhui province, on June 4, 2014. [Photo/VCG]