When adults label student aggression as the “most pressing issue” in education, it’s like diagnosing the fever while ignoring the disease. Chaotic classrooms and rising disruptions are real issues, but treating these symptoms as the underlying crisis guarantees the wrong prescription. From that distorted diagnosis, we see dysregulated children. But adjust the focus, and a different picture emerges: schools stretched beyond capacity, stripped of support, and shaped by decades of structural failures.
