Students Already Loaded with Stress
It is alarming, the number of students in our school who are turning up on a daily basis, already loaded with stressors that were either not around when we were at school, or were just hidden or ignored. I’d not previously heard of the PCE (positive childhood experiences) – we experience more of the scoring ACE kids (adverse childhood experiences). We’ve had cycles where approximately one quarter of the student population had parent/s in jail, kinship care, out of home care, drugs/alcohol/DV backgrounds. It’s heart-breaking at best. While it is a privilege to be one of their ‘non-parent adults who genuinely cared’, it is also gutting when they leave for high school, silently wondering who their next non-parent adult might be.
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