Education Week October 16, 2023
Audrey Wang was in her first year of high school when she started frequently feeling stressed and nervous. She became reluctant to seek help from teachers when a concept didn’t click and felt frustrated with herself for not figuring it out on her own. She felt a knot in her stomach for hours before an exam, and she’d feel inadequate when her classmates got the hang of a new lesson before she did.
She had just gone through a major life transition, switching from middle to high school, and she had done it physically apart from her classmates and teachers, with all classes still remote during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As her feelings of stress and anxiety persisted, “I would go...
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