John McLaughlin

And we always consider students now, a student now compared to 20 years ago is more likely to have an outside job, is more likely to be taking care of family, commuting.

We always have this ideal of students from like movies.

They're all kids that are living in residence and they're having a great time.

But in reality, that's not the case.

They're students that have all these extra pressures in their lives.

So now they're doing that.

They might have socioeconomic pressures where a scholarship is the only reason they can go to school.

And now a slight failure, even in high school or university, takes that away from them.

Their families can't afford it.

They can't afford it.

Or it puts undue pressure on them.

And with more and more people applying to universities, and particularly in Ontario, I can't speak for the rest of the country necessarily, but funding being cut, the pressure is greater and greater for students to get those scholarships, to get into those important schools, and failure becomes anxiety-inducing.

Yeah.

We talked to a lot of our university administrators, like the people really high up in the universities.

And we asked them, they all go through this going, students need to be able to fail, but it's not their fault.

They don't have this.

No individual has the structure to fix the whole system.

They have to fix the whole system.

And what we need is this idea of formative work through classes and for scholarships.

What else can we ask them to do?