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Schools and the toxic resilience agenda
The poorer the area, the more the school walls will be plastered with exhortations that students 'believe in themselves' and dig deep for individual reserves of positivity. It's no coincidence, writes STEVE HANDFORD
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RECENTLY, I worked in a school for deprived and vulnerable pupils. Its walls and corridors contained a litany of inspirational quotes from gurus ancient and modern. This blu-tacked, laminated treasure trove included: “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Another read: “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” There were so many of these they became a running joke with the cynics among us, staff and pupils alike.
I didn’t realise I was waking up to what teachers are now calling “toxic resilience.” Not dumbing down, but numbing down.
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