2/ We also took away socio-emotional learning in grade school as being too "woke" (whatever that means in this context). That curriculum promoted, among other things, resilience.

We are in the process of losing an entire generation, and I don't know how to fix it.

April 11, 2026 - 12:04 UTC

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3/ I see many people wanting to blame the students. IMO, that's wrong.

They have all the developmental tasks of young adulthood, plus all the catch-up of everything they are missing. Plus, we convinced ourselves that the world was super threatening, so they have learned to communicate on devices.
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4/ The platforms they use offer highly curated peeks into other people's lives. The constant message: you are not enough. I wish you could see how isolated students are now. So many of them eat alone in the cafeteria. They can't chat with a stranger in the mailroom line. It's so broken.
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