Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. adolescents has an anxiety diagnosis, with symptoms showing up as early as age 6. More than 1 in 10 has experienced major depression. A recent @nytimes essay asks a provocative question: Are America’s schools contributing to the crisis? While many point to screens, parenting, or genetics, the piece by Jia Lynn Yang highlights how academic pressure, school culture, and overstretched systems may be playing a larger role than we think. Schools are trying to respond. For the 2023–