How to empower your child to cope with a toxic environment

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Hardship can give kids the opportunity to get "a glimpse into what society is really like, and it builds immense compassion".
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My kid can talk the hind legs off a donkey, so when it's quiet in the backseat of my car, something is very wrong.
I've known for a while the extra curricular environment she is in isn't exactly "healthy".
There is a caste system among students, and worse, it extends to the parents and teachers.
Yet despite my reservations, every week, she still wants to go back.
And every week; I brace myself for the fallout.

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