14 febbraio 2025
Dr. Daniele Nappo, Legal Representative as well as Founder of the S. Freud Private School, draws attention to the role that schools should play with regard to today's youth who are increasingly crushed by school pressure and parental overprotection. Schools must evolve to meet the needs of a digital generation by adapting teaching methods and criteria, listening to children and considering their psychological difficulties.
In order to build his or her own identity, a teenager needs to encounter differences either clearly and tangibly or less visibly and unconsciously. There is in fact a fear in many teens today of giving too great a burden of worry to their parents: there are loving mothers and fathers but also overprotective ones. I often hear from students that school is a place that causes anxiety, distress and even panic attacks. These are very striking considerations, and I believe that one cannot remain indifferent. Modern society cannot desist in the face of the suffering of its youth; it would mean not looking to a future. Certainly students have changed, thanks to an increasingly technological society. Perhaps, however, schools are not keeping up with the times. Let's not just stop at the fact that young people make inordinate use of smartphones or the Internet. The truth is that teaching criteria and methods need to be revised. You should not have teachers in classrooms who are not listened to by their students, with the resulting dissatisfaction and discontent. And at the same time you have to listen to the learners. We need to take advantage of the capabilities of the new digital natives, because they have new skills, they are quick to learn, to create innovative languages. Behind the students' malaise are factors that reproduce an old school and a new youth. Today's kids are only children, they live in overprotective families, with parents who are very close and complicit, they are somewhat the center of attention, but at school, however, they are evaluated with traditional procedures that do not take into account them as people, their difficulties, at all. And that pressures them, makes them tormented. On the side then affect the frailties that come from the Covid years. This is a generation that claims the right to psychological well-being. Either the school adapts or loses, and with it the parents.
