Inadequate recognition by institutions of the transition through adolescence

Typically, in Western societies and institutions such as schools, there is no equivalent to the tribal rites-of-passage. Indeed in many Western high schools there is inadequate recognition of developing maturity which aggravates adolescent delinquency, drug-taking, violence or suicide, and contributes to a disaffected, under-achieving student body.

1. The high school system has not failed, rather entire societies are failing as they become internally fragmented and torn between opposing global ideologies and power groups. Demands are made to make institutions more liberal on the one side, and more repressive on the other, reflecting the same tendency to polarization that is found in the community which the schools image.

1. Inhibition of individual psychological development through life phases
2. Absence of rites of passage

1. Difficulty of youth transition from school to work

1. Neglect of adolescent health care
2. Inhibition of exploration by children of urban environment

1. Inadequacy of formal education
2. Excessive dispersion of community facilities

1. Learning distractions
2. Adverse childhood experiences

1. Organizing unifying adolescent activities
2. Improving recognition by institutions of the transition through adolescence

1. Recognition
2. Nonrecognition
3. Inadequacy