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Academia. Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges. What’s Happening to College Students Today? Why do people view teaching as a 'B-list' job? It happens a lot: I'll introduce myself to a group of people I don't know well, explaining that I'm a high school English teacher.
And someone will invariably respond, "But you're smart, what do you really want to do? " As backhanded compliments go, that one really rankles. What I find most irksome isn't even the implication that my colleagues and I are typically mundane or that my work of the last decade has been a waste of my time. Are 'smart drugs' safe for students? It is an all too common story: a diligent student works hard and finally achieves a coveted place at Cambridge University.
Once there, the pressure becomes too great and they turn to drugs. These days, however, the old narrative has changed.