What Happens Long Term?

32/100 What happens long term?
Executive Functions have nothing to do with intelligence or knowledge, these are different parts of the brain. So someone who struggles with Executive Functions can be very intelligent, think the bumbling professor character. Yet many people, especially kids, who struggle with Executive Functions can find school setting to be a challenge. In a society that mostly measures intelligence by success in school this can cause lots of kids who have issues with Executive Function and struggle with school to believe they are not smart. In my own experiences in school and as an adult in both my role as a teacher and parent, I have seen this happen so many times to kids. If you think about all the reasons that a kid might struggle with Executive Functions and I can only imagine how much worse the pandemic has made this issue, that is a lot of kids who go through school feeling like they are not smart because their brains don’t work the way school does. I also really strongly believe this sticks with people, kids who struggle with Executive Functions in school start to loose confidence and interest and curiosity. In all my reading and research so far I have found little about the long term effects this has on people but I think it is pretty significant and important to think about.
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