We define kids’ identities through the deficit and medical models, gloss over the structural problems they face, and then tell them to get some grit and growth mindset. This is gaslighting, an attempt to “overwrite another person’s reality“. It is abusive.

Source: Mindset Marketing, Behaviorism, and Deficit Ideology – Ryan Boren

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