Why so much depression in our public schools?

Canada Free Press ^ | Nov 5, 2019 | Bruce Deitrick Price

[SkyDancer]

Liberal administrators so caught up in social changing rather than teaching the basics.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Social Media, these kids bully each other unmercifully, when I grew up we NEVER treated each other this way NEVER!!!

[cloudmountain]

What is depressing is that way too many children grow up without both parents.
I always thought that it was especially important for a black boy to have a dad to teach him how to deal with adult male, white authority.

Or is that a no-brainer?

[NorthMountain]

Abolish government schools.

[TheStickman]

A) Lazy & selfish parents
B) Eating to much sugar/carbs
C) Not enough sleep (see A)

[Tammy8]

I agree. When I was in school there were a couple bullies in the whole school. Now it is far more common, there are packs of bullies.

[mosaicwolf]

Their minds are totally preoccupied with wants that most cannot have.

[iontheball]

The world is going to end in less than twelve years! Now, if the teacher who your parents told you to respect in school keeps telling you this malarkey day out and day in, who wouldn’t get depressed?

[stanne]

No God no joy

[Obadiah]

While I do not dispute much of what this article contains, and I know people don’t want to hear this; nonetheless, we as a society are increasingly turning our back on our Creator. I’ll bet if you superimposed two trendlines, one that showed the downward trend of America’s religiosity, with the upward trend of broken homes, violence, and mental turmoil, you would see almost exact opposite trend lines.

For example, the dissolution of the nuclear Black family has clearly brought about an equal and opposite response of violence and other social maladies. The nuclear White family is following almost the exact same path, albeit a few decades behind our Black counterparts.

In summary, a decline in personal spirituality leads to a direct increase in a deformed society.

[AppyPappy]

Nope. They are all special. If a kid doesn’t want to take a test, he blames his Anxiety. If he doesn’t turn in a paper, it’s not his fault. It’s his stupid broken brain’s fault. Any attempt to make a student liable for his behavior is met with a firestorm of “I guess you don’t believe in mental illness”. Probably 10+% of the kids talk openly about committing suicide because their life is meaningless. You can’t take action on their behalf because they were just “venting”.

[pfflier]

Maybe depression is over diagnosed like ADD ADHD is.

[polymuser]

Because teachers.

Proggie, new-age, Godless, non-disciplining, confusing, morality-free, PC, union-driven, child-abusing teachers.

Teachers giving blue ribbons for showing up, pushing homosexuality and abortion, teaching methods they themselves do not understand, preaching the end of the world, speaking against common sense.

[tinyowl]

Among all the other stuff mentioned prior ... they are being told that they are slaves to the collective, that their lives are not an end in and of themselves, but that they are servants to a lifeless 'we.'

In its manifestation in the public schools, liberalism is psychological abuse.

A few will consciously or unconsciously see through the haze. They will make it, so will the sociopaths in their own way, who will come to lead 'we' religion. They form the evil of the 'all liberals are either evil or ignorant.'

The depressed kids will become the ignorant, and those who see through the haze will be the sliver of humanity that has managed to preserve freedom, only because that sliver will die (and have) before they'll let go it it -> they equate freedom to life.

[laplata]

A 6th grader met Jesus and asked “Why do we have so much violence and depression in our schools”?

Jesus said “Because they have taken me out of your schools”.

[Shadow44]

Everyone is depressed, mental illness keeps skyrocketing despite more and more medications being sold to the public. Maybe we need to take a hard look in the mirror and realize our society is fundamentally broken and makes people mentally ill.

Teenagers are just among the most vulnerable elements of society.

[rlmorel]

I had problems with depression growing up.

And I was happy growing up.

Could it just be that this society that wants to wrap people (especially children) in bubble wrap to protect them from any discomfort or harm is mistaking a natural process of growing up with a serious pathology?

Perhaps, instead of jumping in with both feet to “fix” a problem with everything from drugs to gender reassignment surgery wouldn’t it be wiser to allow kids the space to work some things out on their own and develop their own coping skills?

I cannot imagine what it is like to be a kid today. Just can’t imagine it.

[digger48]

And tomorrow, most all schools in my state are closing so the teachers can protest in Indy

Always left out of the negotiations for teacher pay, is WHY non-teaching positions in schools are growing at 5 times the rate of growth for student enrollment

[txrefugee]

And you have to get up at 6:30 AM, earlier if you ride the bus, because classes start at 7:30 AM. No one gets enough sleep. Our educational system is child abuse in so many ways that it’s surprising that we have so few school shootings.