Many people use trigger warnings in classrooms to aid kids to not use microaggressions which can make kids feel threatened or cause dramatic emotional reactions. Lukianoff and Haidt’s article ‘The Coddling’ talks about it in greater depth. “F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby portrays misogyny and physical abuse, so that students who have been previously victimized by racism or domestic violence can choose to avoid these works, which they believe might “trigger” a recurrence of past trauma.” They said that a well known, and in my opinion a really good book, is now not able to be read in the classroom because of the concern that some students might have personal emotional reactions. In her Ted Talk, Carol Dweck talks about kids who have a growth mindset, and a fixed mindset. “Some of them reacted in a shockingly positive way.(…)They understood that their abilities could be developed. (…) But other students felt it was tragic, catastrophic. From their more fixed mindset perspective, their intelligence had been up for judgement, and they had failed.” Dweck says that the kids with a growth mindset were excited to learn, but the kids with a fixed mindset were not willing to push themselves. If you do not allow kids to use microaggressions in classrooms, and keep relying on trigger warnings and hiding the ‘truth’ from most of the children in the classroom, then how are they going to respond outside of the classroom? We need kids with more growth mindsets and the only way to continue to do this, to expand their knowledge and make them excited to test their skills, is to stop using trigger warnings and allow children to read things that are slightly harder to cope with, because without coping skills, they will really struggle in the real world. It might be difficult for this to happen, but it is worth the effort.