Author calls on parents to free children from 'toxic achievement culture' and ask four key questions
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Author Jennifer Breheny Wallace says parents, students and teachers should consider their role in “toxic achievement culture" and nonstop competition in education.
"Toxic achievement culture" is at its worst for students who are pressured to maintain top grades and multiple extracurriculars in order to get into a competitive school, Wallace said. Some of the students most affected by the nonstop pressure of competition in education are at high-achieving schools across the country. Jeffrey Clark is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. He has previously served as a speechwriter for a cabinet secretary and as a Fulbright teacher in South Korea. Jeffrey graduated from the University of Iowa in 2019 with a degree in English and History.
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"Those are competitive public and private schools around the country," Wallace explained. "Those kids were now an at-risk group, meaning they were two to six times more likely to suffer from clinical levels of anxiety, depression and substance abuse disorder than the average American teen."