Young people need to develop “true grit” according to the head of one of the country’s leading public schools. He is right. Today’s teenagers are growing up in a much more complex, public and unforgiving world than their parents, or even their older brothers and sisters, ever did.
Three children in every classroom aged between five and 16-years-old has a mental health problem, and among teenagers rates of depression and anxiety have increased by 70 per cent in the past 25 years.
This affects their ability to learn, to progress to further education or training, as well as attendance and behaviour in and out of the classroom.
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