[EricDrost]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

But we hit the ground running this year and most of the kids I told that to? They worked their butts off.

Most? This is also a pretty good indicator that no two students are the same and that some may need individualized responses in situations like this. Especially because there's quite a large gap in emotional maturity from the most mature to the least mature students (or all people for that matter).