ANA President Frances, E. Jensen, MD, FANA, FACP, shares her captivating thoughts in a recent Hechinger Report article about "Helping middle schoolers think about a future beyond the pandemic."
Dr. Jensen, Professor and Chair of Development of Neurology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, states: "They do not have the frontal lobe connectivity to sustain lifelong consequences of their decisions. They may rush into an area that seems like they are peer pressured into. I’d be concerned about having a seventh grader say: ‘I’m going to be a rocket scientist’ … or being railroaded into a track for either university or vocational school."
Read the full article here: https://hechingerreport.org/column-helping-middle-schoolers-think-about-a-future-beyond-the-pandemic/