The resigned are often wrongly accused of not taking life seriously enough, of not growing up: a failure to launch, an inability to accept responsibilities, and so on. For at least a decade this is how some lazy pundits have described millennials and now describe Generation Z. The standard explanation is that a generation raised on positive self-esteem and participation trophies is too fragile and sensitive to exist as adults in the “real world.” My experience teaching millennials and the following generation has taught me that this is far from true. When a young person stops coming to class,
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