Across time zones, age groups and socioeconomic lines, young people appear to be hitting a breaking point that developmental psychologists are calling the "pandemic wall." Here's why and what to do about it.
Don't get me wrong, learning is important, but I don't have tons of fond memories of great learning opportunities in school.
I was in social work school until recently, and a friend of mine dropped out in part because that was the administration's response to her having financial issues (except they also recommended not even having part-time job).
That's bad enough in any school, but social work school has traditionally, until recently, been arranged in such a way that you COULD hold a job, most students were expected to, and the workload was adjusted to account for it- guarantee it was that way when our administrators went through it. But tuition keeps going up, internship requirements go up (and they don't HAVE to be unpaid, but paid ones are extremely rare, as are ones that don't require you to have a car), academic workload keeps going up, and we're just expected to take out loans to cover our living expenses. And we're fucking social workers, it's not even like we're doctors who can expect to make pretty good money once they're done with school.
I was in social work school until recently, and a friend of mine dropped out in part because that was the administration's response to her having financial issues (except they also recommended not even having part-time job).
That's bad enough in any school, but social work school has traditionally, until recently, been arranged in such a way that you COULD hold a job, most students were expected to, and the workload was adjusted to account for it- guarantee it was that way when our administrators went through it. But tuition keeps going up, internship requirements go up (and they don't HAVE to be unpaid, but paid ones are extremely rare, as are ones that don't require you to have a car), academic workload keeps going up, and we're just expected to take out loans to cover our living expenses. And we're fucking social workers, it's not even like we're doctors who can expect to make pretty good money once they're done with school.