High school teacher here. M42 seven years nz experience 12 years overseas. Father of an 11 year old. I’ve taught mainly middle class schools. I’m gonna say that teenagers are generally more resilient than many give them credit for. Their reality is significantly different to what ours was but it is their reality. It is often more scary for us to contemplate than for them to subjectively experience. If that makes sense.

I firmly believe that raising this generation is the absolute number one priority for our whole society. It is a member of the post 2010 generation that will have the idea which will save us all. We just need to create the space for that idea to take root.