The numbers of youth distress published by Repubblica.it are dramatic. They reveal that 2 million young people between the ages of 10 and 20 suffer from mental disorders. They experience school poorly and feel inadequate. It’s the failure of the school system that doesn’t prepare them for life, providing teachings to improve competence, autonomy, and relational skills. It’s also the failure of parents who haven’t been able to educate their children to become aware adults of their own abilities and responsibilities. It’s the failure of the state that doesn’t provide an educational system centered on personal development.
The hope is that networks of teachers and parents will be formed to promote ways to address this situation, involving psychologists but also implementing initiatives that can teach adolescents their value as individuals regardless of any other assessment.
There isn’t much time to help these young people because if we wait for them to leave school, this work will be much more difficult due to the difficulty of bringing them together, but above all because they will have spent crucial years despairing.
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