Absolutely it has a significant impact, after all any type of addiction affects study and school.
The choice is crucial especially if you happen to make some small win, for an adult maybe it is not a big deal, but for a kid
who doesn't have an income anyway, getting a win without struggling and without sacrifice, could interpret it as easy money and that's when the damage has been done.
I agree with that. Even computer or gaming addiction affects the schooling of a student. I am actually an example of that. I repeated high school because of my addiction to console games and computer games, but somehow I crawled back to reality and went back to school.
The difference is that gambling addiction is way expensive. It can actually ruin the education of a person, and it can also ruin their entire life. If not corrected, it will definitely be a chaotic future for them, and it will be difficult to recover from it once all the savings are gone and there are debts piling up.