‘Teen Pause’ Club Gives NCHS Students a Much-Needed Place to Decompress

By Milo Zinser | 2 hours ago

When Scarlett Stewart arrived at New Canaan High School as a ninth grader, she found herself struggling with anxiety that she didn’t know how to manage.

A competitive dancer who practiced four hours per day on top of her NCHS workload, Stewart “felt like I was taking on too much.”

“And I’ll be honest, my grades dropped because I didn’t know how to handle dance and school,” she told NewCanaanite.com during a recent interview at New Canaan Library. “And that just caused even more stress.”

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