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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Bruce Daisley

HISTORICAL FACTS: Gcse results day why asking teenagers to be more resilient is a mistake - Caught on Camera

‘Be more resilient’ is a phrase often thrown at our younger generation. Such is the concern around the lack of grit among young people that they are regularly disdainfully referred to as ‘the snowflake generation’.

And as students across the UK receive their GCSE results today, and grades are inevitably expected to reflect the disruption the pandemic has had on education over the last two years, it has unsurprisingly led to yet more calls for teens to show more resilience.

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