Posted on 09/04/2016 6:46:51 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
A skyrocketing number of students are seeking crisis counseling at Eastern Carolina University, prompting the school to make sure it educates pupils not just on academics but also on how to cope with life's challenges.
ECU reported a 16 percent increase in student counseling appointments in the past two years. Those involving a crisis were up 52 percent, according to a July report that shocked officials on the Greenville, North Carolina, campus.
"It wasn't just the numbers, it was the intensity and severity," said ECU Director of Counseling Valerie Kisler-van Reede. "It felt like something very different was going on a lack of resiliency and the ability to cope."
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The truth is being exposed, and the truth reveals that you can’t play T-ball all your life. Reality produces winners and losers. In nature it is known as survival of the fittest.
I was a farm kid. I liked the old 4-H motto of “learning by doing”. Classes now on being an adult? Jeesh!
So, their parents failed in their responsibility to inculcate their kiddies with responsibility and life skills, and university faculty take up the slack. Sheesh.
Additionally, when did “Adult” become a verb? Uttering childish gibberish is part of the problem.
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