Hat tip Jack M
Guest Post by Tom Purcell
Too many college-age kids are unable to care for their most basic needs, which doesn’t bode well for my future.
Peter Gray, Ph.D., a research professor at Boston College, writes in Psychology Today that increasing lack of resilience among today’s college kids is causing educators all kinds of problems.
“Students are increasingly seeking help for, and apparently having emotional crises over, problems of everyday life,” he writes.
He cites some worrisome examples.
At one major university, emergency calls to the counseling department more than doubled over the past five years.
In one case, a female student felt traumatized because her roommate had called her a “bitch.”
In another case, two students “sought counseling because they had seen a mouse in their off-campus apartment” – after they panicked and called the police, who set a mousetrap for the startled students.
Such needy students are forcing faculty to do more hand-holding, and to lower academic standards, so as to not challenge the fragile little nitwits too much.
Why?
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