Is student resilience declining? A lot of educators believe it is. Some students just have a hard time making it on there own. Is this because there parents doing everything for them? Is this because of their previous teachers not pushing them enough or could it be just plain laziness? According to studies today it could be a combination of all three. The question is what are we going to do about it.
Resilience has been a key word when talking about education for a long time now. Advocates say that young people need to develop the ability to cope with difficulties themselves, rather than expect others to solve their problems (Binnie 2016). Critics argue that it is used as a catch-all term that removes responsibility from institutions and fails …show more content…
Because of more students having anxiety or depression they do not have as much resilience because they cannot handle problems. Resilience is a very important skill to have if you are going to enter college. The most frequently cited culprits implicated in declining student resilience are “helicopter parenting” and an overly regimented K-12 education system that together arrest normal child development and infantilize young adults (Cummins 2016). Because of this our generation does not know how to solve there own problems because someone else always solved them for …show more content…
Some said they have grown afraid to give low grades for poor performance, because of the subsequent emotional crises they would have to deal with in their offices (Gray 2015). This is another excellent example of how students today are becoming less resilient. Students need to learn that is they do not earn their grade they should get what they deserve. There is to many students that do not do there homework and do not even do their work in class and fell like they deserve an A+. Many students, they said, now view a C, or sometimes even a B, as failure, and they interpret such “failure” as the end of the world (Gray 2015). Is what they do not realize is a B is still a good grade and that some people may have a lot lower grade in the same
Resilience has been a key word when talking about education for a long time now. Advocates say that young people need to develop the ability to cope with difficulties themselves, rather than expect others to solve their problems (Binnie 2016). Critics argue that it is used as a catch-all term that removes responsibility from institutions and fails …show more content…
Because of more students having anxiety or depression they do not have as much resilience because they cannot handle problems. Resilience is a very important skill to have if you are going to enter college. The most frequently cited culprits implicated in declining student resilience are “helicopter parenting” and an overly regimented K-12 education system that together arrest normal child development and infantilize young adults (Cummins 2016). Because of this our generation does not know how to solve there own problems because someone else always solved them for …show more content…
Some said they have grown afraid to give low grades for poor performance, because of the subsequent emotional crises they would have to deal with in their offices (Gray 2015). This is another excellent example of how students today are becoming less resilient. Students need to learn that is they do not earn their grade they should get what they deserve. There is to many students that do not do there homework and do not even do their work in class and fell like they deserve an A+. Many students, they said, now view a C, or sometimes even a B, as failure, and they interpret such “failure” as the end of the world (Gray 2015). Is what they do not realize is a B is still a good grade and that some people may have a lot lower grade in the same