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Why Are Palo Alto Kids Killing Themselves?
National Review ^ | 05/22/2015 | Maggie Gallagher

Posted on 05/22/2015 7:23:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind



TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: paloalton; suicide; teenage; youth
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To: SeekAndFind

Flouride.


21 posted on 05/22/2015 8:12:50 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Because they can?


22 posted on 05/22/2015 8:16:46 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Hateful Christians.

Global warming.

The school nurse ran out of condoms.

Kidding aside, this is a heartbreaking topic. Suicide is a common thought amongst innocent teens, who shouldn’t even know what the word means at their young ages.


23 posted on 05/22/2015 8:30:05 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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Clearly the name of the school needs to be changed.


24 posted on 05/22/2015 8:33:03 AM PDT by TruthBeforeAll
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To: Jeff Chandler
“Flouride.”

More like the SSRI’s that they get put on when they first start to exhibit the initial signs that are a run up to the suicide.

Here is breakdown by name/place/age. A train seems to the instrument of choice.
http://paloaltofreespeech.blogspot.com/2014/11/palo-alto-youth-suicides.html

25 posted on 05/22/2015 8:38:07 AM PDT by Polynikes (What would Walt Kowalski do. In the meantime "GET OFF MY LAWN")
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To: SeekAndFind

“But, Mom....”

“STOP IT RIGHT NOW Billy. If Johnnie told to jump off a bridge, would you?”


26 posted on 05/22/2015 8:38:42 AM PDT by moovova
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To: SeekAndFind

“Oceans are boiling, mankind is an infection, Western Civilization is evil, being white is no good, America is bad and economic decline is The New Normal....”

ADULTS are dumping this on them.


27 posted on 05/22/2015 9:02:32 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: SeekAndFind

Can you post a link to the original article? Thanks!


28 posted on 05/22/2015 9:04:13 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: kosciusko51

SEE HERE:

http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/03/25/guest-opinion-the-sorrows-of-young-palo-altans

TITLE:

Paly school board rep: ‘The sorrows of young Palo Altans’


29 posted on 05/22/2015 9:05:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: kosciusko51

And here’s the other:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Why-are-Palo-Alto-s-kids-killing-themselves-6270854.php

TITLE:

Why are Palo Alto’s kids killing themselves?


30 posted on 05/22/2015 9:06:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: lurk

My kids go to a Christian school in San Jose, and the kids there are very messed up.

No one has comitted suicide, but lots are in treatment for it.

Lots of the girls cut themselves. My daughter says it’s very sad to see their scars. Then there are lots of anorexia s. Even the Christian school pushes them with their theme Quest for Excellence.

Personally, I wish it was about the pursuit for God.

I wish we moved out of the Silicon Valley years ago.

However the problems here are elsewhere.

My son’s roommate at Texas A&M attempted suicide a few months ago. (My son saw the whole thing.)

I think kids do not have good coping skills, and I don’t know how you teach that.


31 posted on 05/22/2015 9:10:07 AM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: SeekAndFind

Godless?


32 posted on 05/22/2015 9:10:55 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Of those born of women there is not risen one greater than John The Baptist.)
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To: G Larry

One kid from one of the local Christian Schools comitted suicide this year. He was active in his church too.

My son’s roommate was active in student ministries.

Kids can’t seem to cope with trials or failures.


33 posted on 05/22/2015 9:15:40 AM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: SeekAndFind

I meant the National Review link to Maggie Gallagher’s story, not the stories she quoted. I can’t seem to find it on their site nor on Maggie Gallagher’s site.


34 posted on 05/22/2015 9:32:37 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: kosciusko51

Here is the National Review link:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418760/why-are-palo-alto-kids-killing-themselves-maggie-gallagher


35 posted on 05/22/2015 9:48:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Thank you. Greatly appreciated.


36 posted on 05/22/2015 9:52:08 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: SeekAndFind

They have a disease called affluenza. And no God so their life has no meaning larger than them.


37 posted on 05/22/2015 11:49:16 AM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Jeff Chandler
We were warned.


38 posted on 05/22/2015 12:19:37 PM PDT by BBell (Cult of the Sacred Drunken Wookiee)
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To: dennisw

So they announced the salutatorians at my daughters’ school, they had 19 and 21 AP classes with over a 4.7 GPA.

The valedictorian had 17 AP classes and over a 4.7 GPA.

In my day, you were doing well if you took 1 AP class.

They only have 7 periods a day, and 1 is Bible. They also have to take 2 semesters of PE.

I don’t even know how they get that many AP classes. They must have gone to summer school.


39 posted on 05/22/2015 4:15:52 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: SeekAndFind
Calvary Church in Los Gatos has an outreach at Los Gatos High for suicide risks, although they have to be careful about being non-secular due to the marxists state laws.

This is one of the top 5 outreaches at church this year....

40 posted on 05/22/2015 5:02:13 PM PDT by Battle Hymn of the Republic
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