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Rash of student suicides push Las Vegas schools to partially reopen
The Blaze ^ | January 24, 2021 | Paul Sacca

Posted on 01/27/2021 5:24:26 PM PST by CheshireTheCat

Clark County School District in Nevada, the nation's fifth-largest school district, wants to reopen as "quickly as possible" following a rash of student suicides, according to a new report.

There were 18 suicides in the nine months that the schools were closed due to the coronavirus lockdown, which is double the amount of suicides in all of the previous year, according to the New York Times.

"By July, after the sixth suicide since March, the district invested in a program, the GoGuardian Beacon alert system, to send reports of mild to severe suicide risk," the report said. "The system, which scans student writings on district-issued iPads, generated more than 3,100 alerts from June to October, indicating behavior such as suicide research, self-harm, written comments, or just the need for help or support."

"When we started to see the uptick in children taking their lives, we knew it wasn't just the Covid numbers we need to look at anymore," Jesus Jara, Clark County superintendent, said. "We have to find a way to put our hands on our kids, to see them, to look at them. They've got to start seeing some movement, some hope."...

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; Government; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: rip; suicide; tragic

1 posted on 01/27/2021 5:24:26 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

just collateral damage in the war on orange man


2 posted on 01/27/2021 5:25:31 PM PST by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: CheshireTheCat

now that Biden is in.. its time to start “looking” at the wider effect of the lockdowns

(sigh)


3 posted on 01/27/2021 5:26:01 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: CheshireTheCat

All the Elected Officials should be Criminally Charged with Negligent Homicide and JAILED! There is precedent, they convicted a girl for encouraging her friend to commit suicide, I see NO Difference.


4 posted on 01/27/2021 5:29:28 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: CheshireTheCat

I suspect there will be a teen baby boom sny time now too


5 posted on 01/27/2021 5:36:06 PM PST by llevrok (I'm old enough to remember when the quarantine was to be 3 weeks)
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To: JerryBlackwell

I think it’s more than that.

The teachers’ Unions seem to have discovered an opportunity to exert their ‘power’.

They have no idea how useless they are making themselves.
And they don’t seem to care that they are destroying the educations of an entire generation of school-age children.

Larry O’Connor, on WMAL today, had audio from a recent local school board meeting where a man was VERY vocal, saying that even the men who pick up his garbage every day risk their lives far more than these wimpy teachers ever do.

A lot of parents have now learned that home-schooling is a real possibility. Hopefully, the public schools will soon see a pretty large exodus. The kids aren’t getting a decent education, anyway, in the best of times. Why should people put up with this?


6 posted on 01/27/2021 5:40:18 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("Corn Pop was a bad dude. He ran a bunch of bad boys.")
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To: CheshireTheCat

The China Virus “pandemic” seems tailor made for those who desire America’s demise.


7 posted on 01/27/2021 5:43:30 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

The China Virus “pandemic” seems tailor made for those who desire America’s demise.
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It’s all part of the plan of the ChiComs and the DNC. Have no doubt.


8 posted on 01/27/2021 5:52:53 PM PST by House Atreides
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To: Jamestown1630

That video is maddening. The reaction of the school board is so callous. They didn’t even bother to address the issues raised by this father.


9 posted on 01/27/2021 11:45:26 PM PST by Jvette (America was built on freedom not freebies)
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To: eyeamok

Homicide? Are you sure? Students aren’t committing suicide over schooling. They’re committing suicide due to lack of social contact and inability to cope.
I’m not so sure it’s a bad thing. Thinning the herd of the weak has it’s advantages. Many wont agree with this but we have failed to prepare them for life through over-protection and cossetting. Helicopter parenting.


10 posted on 01/28/2021 2:28:20 AM PST by .44 Special (Tiamid Buacach!)
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To: eyeamok

Homicide? Are you sure? Students aren’t committing suicide over schooling. They’re committing suicide due to lack of social contact and inability to cope.
I’m not so sure it’s a bad thing. Thinning the herd of the weak has it’s advantages. Many wont agree with this but we have failed to prepare them for life through over-protection and cossetting. Helicopter parenting.


11 posted on 01/28/2021 2:28:20 AM PST by .44 Special (Tiamid Buacach!)
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To: CheshireTheCat
The lockdown’s death toll over the next few years will never be reported. Suicides,undiagnosed/untreated case of cancer,heart disease,etc
12 posted on 01/28/2021 4:16:08 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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