Some secondary school students are finding a way ahead in the post-pandemic world, but experts say many teens still feel they’ve been robbed of direction, and are urging parents to engage.
If it takes a young person to really understand another young person, year 12 student and youth advocate Ravin Desai is well-placed to give a window into the minds of his peers.
“I’m definitely in that camp. But then there are some people who didn’t mature at all. And it’s like we’ve got this huge gap. A lot of friendship groups have split; it’s kind of weird.”Parents and schools will receive an in-depth insight into how their young people are faring when research by the Australian Council for Educational Research and Beyond Blue is released later this year.
“It should be pretty stable year-on-year, but to see things dropping in hundreds of thousands of kids, it’s pretty clear something’s happening.” Victorian students are more anxious about COVID than those in other states, she said. “That’s when I started being interested in coaching and sports administration. If it wasn’t for the pandemic, I definitely wouldn’t have gone down that path,” said Janssen.Year 11s optimistic – and also worried
Introverted or self-driven young students were “either doing OK, or thriving” almost two years after they entered the “new normal”. But there was pervasive apathy among a large group.
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