I'm so tired of stories about "grit." Take it from someone who got into Harvard after the death of one parent and the mental breakdown of another: everyone's go

I'm so tired of stories about "grit." Take it from someone who got into Harvard after the death of one parent and the mental breakdown of another: everyone's got a breaking point. I happened to experience my breaking point after I got into an Ivy League school, but all those traumas were cumulative. What we are experiencing in this country is a strip-mining of infrastructure, support, and education. Then instead of stories about reinvestment in our next generation, we're fed pablum about 'grit.' "Oh, I set your house on fire? Here's this awesome story about someone who got a PhD even after her house burned down." We're looking at the wrong problem.