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Ignoring suicide, I think there is still value in reducing needless stress so students can focus on learning. My college doesn't have counselors, and I wish it
by saint_fiasco 11y ago
Ignoring suicide, I think there is still value in reducing needless stress so students can focus on learning.
My college doesn't have counselors, and I wish it had,if only to help me navigate the stupid bureaucracy that adults insist anyone should be able to navigate.
Instead, I find myself more comfortable and less stressed at my actual job, so it's not just that I'm "coddled", or that I expect to be sheltered from how the real world works.
- talmand 11y agoMaybe the solution is to determine what is causing the symptoms to deal with that instead of treating them with counselors for everything. If it's determined that counselors is the way to go for the root cause, then by all means let's give it a shot. Especially with colleges have nothing in place. But let's not dismiss concerns over too much. But, I agree, helping students focus more on learning is a good thing. Then again, let's not remove life lessons in the process. Such as dealing with bureaucracy.
- saint_fiasco 11y agoNot remove. Add. Think positive. With counselors, and puppies, and trigger warnings and all that silliness, college can be more demanding than it used to be without making people spend what should be their prime years in a state of chronic stress. Consider what college students of previous generations did to unwind. Was that really better?