The Quiet Emergency: When Adults Look Away and Kids Learn to Disappear

how hard that is for a kid? Do you really think she did that because of ‘interpersonal conflict’?”

The counselor leaned forward.

“Adolescence is complicated,” she said softly. “Students sometimes struggle with social belonging.”

I stared at her.

That sentence might have been the most infuriating one of all, because it sounded gentle while erasing everything.continue reading …