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Schools Are Accommodating Student Anxiety — and Making It Worse



Removing stressors robs students of growth opportunities, writes TC's Ben Lovett and his co-author Alex Jordan


Jacob is terrified of oral reports he’s expected to give in his 10th-grade history class this school year. A therapist’s note recommends he be excused, and the school agrees. This scenario is playing out nationwide. The individuals and institutions involved are well intentioned and trying to help students feel more comfortable. But as psychologists who’ve studied and treated anxiety for decades, we believe that this approach — eliminating whatever makes students nervous — is making the problem worse. Here’s
why: Anxiety feeds on avoidance.

According to a 2022 study, the average anxious student receives 20 school-based supports, many of them avoidance-based, such as extra time for tests, separate rooms to work in, and lighter workloads.

Academic accommodations for anxiety convey two harmful messages. First, they imply that the feared situation is truly dangerous. Public speaking, testing, or lunch with classmates are too risky for a student. Second, they suggest that the student can’t withstand the distress. Those messages increase anxiety.

By contrast, when students take on what they’d rather avoid, they learn that worst-case scenarios rarely materialize, that discomfort is survivable, and that anxiety diminishes with practice. Indeed, purposely facing fears is the core of exposure therapy, the gold standard treatment for anxiety disorders for over half a century.

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Well, it’s all you’ve got
Throw that race card

maybe we should concentrate on a working knowledge of the numbers we already got

I blame liberal white women

Blue-city Democrat mad that program helps white people


Democratic New York City Council Member Julie Won expressed frustration on Tuesday over white women benefiting from the Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise (M/WBE) Certification Program.

The program assists minorities and/or women entrepreneurs “access government contracts” and expand their business, according to the city government’s website. Won pressed First Deputy Chief Business Diversity Officer Dwight Flynn during a hearing to increase the certifications for minorities.

“So for the total certified firms, you’re saying that we certified 11,382 [as of the end of 2025] … that already is too little. 11,382 firms for the city of New York that has $118 billion budget. 30% of that is going to contracting,” Won said. “That is an abysmal amount of money that is being — our taxpayer dollars go straight back into the hands of white people.”

“We’re going to have to get certifications up for all of the M/WBEs, but especially for looking at your breakdown of certified firms, there’s more non-minority, so white women-owned firms, 26%, than Asian-owned and Hispanic-owned and Native American-owned that are certified,” she added. “So, you’re going to have to get the certification numbers up so that we actually have people of color who are also certified, not just white women.”

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I saw they were all at arms about a toddler catching some pepper spray.

At a riot

Reality Caught Up to ‘Climate Change’


The climate creed that once ruled unquestioned is cracking as energy needs, geopolitical reality, and basic science force the West to admit carbon isn’t dying anytime soon.

By Victor Davis Hanson


For decades, the monolithic and sacrosanct international climate change hierarchy went unquestioned.

Western nations in particular spent trillions of dollars over the past half-century to subsidize expensive but erratic wind and solar energy while demonizing carbon fuels as toxic threats to the planet.

Like Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion dogma, climate change orthodoxy was embedded into every aspect of Western culture, from the corporate boardroom to the university campus.

Question whether man-made global warming was truly responsible for increased temperatures rather than natural, often centuries-long cycles of heating and cooling of the planet, and one was labeled a climate crank.

Everything from declining fertility to forest fires was ridiculously attributed to climate change.

But the causes of both demographic crises and charred landscapes were more likely the result of new affluent lifestyles that saw child-rearing as too expensive and time-consuming, and misguided forest policies or underfunded firefighting.

Yet reality has caught up with the near-religious climate change cult.

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For real
They hate free speech

Free beer yesterday
Free beer tomorrow

Not a good look either way
You know that’s not yours