Adopt-A-School: Resilience in children should never be confused with tragedy
By recognizing “resilience” as anything other than a tragedy in the life of an impoverished child — and to speak of it as something vaguely admirable — is to ignore the conditions that caused it, no matter how well meaning the observer.
Author of the article: Gerry Bellett
Publishing date: Jan 04, 2021 • January 8, 2021 • 6 minute read •
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Last spring Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a pediatrician in Flint, Michigan, whose relentless advocacy for impoverished children has brought her international acclaim, wrote a piece in the New York Times.
The headline was: “I am Sick of Asking Children to be Resilient.”