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Susanna Schrobsdorff's The Kids Are Not All Right

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When walking down the halls of an average high school, one would see a beautiful girl with lush blonde hair, a young man that is clearly on the football team, a petite boy with bright colored hair trying to stand out of the crowd, and then there are the smiling students. They are all smiling, but the eyes are what show the truth, the stress that they are facing as high schoolers is crushing them. Times Magazine recently released a cover story titled The Kids Are Not All Right, a story discussing what is happening in a teens life these days. In the story, Susanna Schrobsdorff quotes Victor Schwartz, of the Jed Foundation, a nonprofit that works with colleges and universities on mental-health programs and services, “The competitiveness, the lack

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