Richland School District adds mental health relief rooms

KFVS 12 ^ | 3/14/22 | Mike Mohundro

[AT7Saluki]

This will help with the everyday stress, anxiety, depression and other mental health aspects that students and adults deal with on a daily basis.

There is a room for students and a room for staff members. Each of them have different style of comfortable chairs, puzzles, drawing stations, yoga mats and more.

“It’s really relaxing,” 8th grade student Veronica Touchette said. “All the lights and you can come in here and read a book or do a puzzle. That’s what I’m doing. Or color or really anything.”

[AT7Saluki]

Two years of fomented pandemic panic excepted, is it any wonder we're becoming a nation of pansies?

[OttawaFreeper]

I thought that running out in the schoolyard during recess and lunch hour served that purpose. When I was a kid, there was also coming home at lunch to watch Spiderman or the Flintstones cartoons.

[230FMJ]

Too bad our troops didn’t have a “Safe Space” back in 1944.

[DAC21]

I wonder if the Teachers will leave enough room for a couple of kids to join them?

[Gay State Conservative]

During BCT at Ft Knox (53 years ago) I tried to present the drill sgt with a stress card...telling him that I was just overwhelmed by the external stimuli I was experiencing. He smiled gently and said “of course,Private...you just go over there and sit down in the shade”.

[Karliner]

We had that in the early seventies. It was called detention or the deans office waiting room. Now get back to class!

[antidemoncrat]

“Each of them have different style of comfortable chairs, puzzles, drawing stations, yoga mats and more. “

What! No crying towel dispensers? How cruel.

[T.B. Yoits]

When are they going to add sanity rooms? because they don’t have those either.

[Bikkuri]

But, isn’t that what the “safe spaces” were for?

[Bikkuri]

I’m not sure there will ever be a recovery. These last 2 generations are lost.

[dfwgator]

[bobbo666]

If I were nearby I would not be able to resist banging on the door and running away. Call it a stress test. How tightly could these losers be wound before turning on each other?

Imagine the reaction if after a few hours someone opened the door and found they had all turned on each other.

[Organic Panic]

I assume few schools have PE. Much easier to just medicate them. Especially after forcing them to stay locked up staring at a screen or sitting with a stupid mask on for 8hours.