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“When institutions face sustained pressure, they often respond defensively. Anxious about outcomes, safeguarding, and public scrutiny, schools can be drawn towards visible, reassuring actions that signal care, even when those actions are poorly aligned with their core function. Institutional anxiety can therefore drive a drift away from the primary task, encouraging the adoption of practices that feel protective yet blur roles and undermine purpose. These pressures do not justify dissolving the boundary between education and therapy. When therapeutic practices are incorporated into everyday classroom life, they risk undermining the school’s primary task of learning while failing to provide children with an appropriate psychological setting in which difficulties can be safely addressed. In attempting to meet every need within the classroom, schools risk doing neither education nor therapy particularly well”.