Is this controversial policy helping kids — or making school more difficult?

Sometimes kids need a reset, too.

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It’s a stressful time to be a kid.

Young people are watching environmental disasters, school shootings, and economic and political uncertainty, all with a level of media (or at least social media) coverage that would have been unimaginable for previous generations. Against this backdrop, they’re also expected to have their lives figured out by an early age...