Posted on 02/15/2021 7:46:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
As lazy teachers and their unions continue to fight going back to school in an effort to extend their summer vacation, kids are dying. They’re committing suicide at alarming rates due to the lack of in-person learning, social interaction, after-school activities, and sports. It's causing kids to become depressed at exponential rates. They’re also not learning.
I think parents have known this for months, but now there’s solid data to reinforce this commonsense point. Little kids cannot sit still in front of a computer screen. Also, not everyone has Internet access. To liberal America and the elites, you know this undercuts your ‘stay at home, we’re all in this together’ war cry, right?
I think this was already happening in the red states, but dead kids from Republican states don’t matter. It only matters when it started to creep into the blue states, which has happened. In Clark County, Nevada, its school district is rushing to reopen schools as soon as humanly possible due to a spike in student suicides. And now, in San Francisco, they’re seeing the same tragedies, which prompted the city to yank its own school board into court in an effort to get kids back in the classroom. These schools have been closed for over a year (via NY Post):
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced last week he was taking the dramatic step of suing the city’s own school district, which has kept its classrooms closed nearly a year. In the motion filed Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court, Herrera included alarming testimony from hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area, doctors and parents on the emotional and mental harms of extended distance learning.
One mother, Allison Arieff, said she had recently found her 15-year-old daughter “curled up in a fetal position, crying, next to her laptop at 11 am” Arieff said her daughter often cries in the middle of the day out of frustration and “is losing faith not just in SFUSD but in the world.”
Another mother, Lindsay Sink, has seen a “major regression” in her 7-year-old son who has “uncontrollable meltdowns that turn (the) whole house upside down.” Sink’s 10-year-old daughter is experiencing “depression and anger” and she fears her daughter’s “mental health will continue to suffer” until in-person learning resumes.
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital has seen a 66 percent increase in the number of suicidal children in the emergency room and a 75 percent increase in youth who required hospitalization for mental health services, the lawsuit said, quoting pediatricians, child psychiatrists and emergency room doctors.
As long as teachers’ unions drag their feet and deny the science behind schools in the COVID era, which is that it's been safe to reopen them for quite some time, nothing will happen. The unions are too big an ally for the Democratic Party to anger. They will need their help in the 2022 midterms. Don’t expect much movement. I would be happy to see a seismic shift occur, but don’t bet the mortgage.
It’s not side effects of Rona. It’s side effects of the ludicrous response to Rona.
The virus itself is a killer of old people like me. We can handle it. Go live your lives, young people. Ditch the masks. Go to a restaurant, go to a bar. Sing some Karaoke. Watch a movie.
i.e. live your life.
I’m sure everything will be fine once they have all those kids drugged.
/wish it WAS sarc
They weren’t learning when they were in the public indoctrination centers, either.
Sullen teens? what’s new?
Thanks Dr. Fascist!
Its part of the plan to develop the Dem liberal fascist cannon fodder for the coming "Revlooshun."
We need millions of angry teenagers who will become like the Kmer Rouge here in America, and kill everyone who does not submit to these idiots:
The Idiot in Chief, Hail to the Idiot!:
Depressed? Not learning? Perfect. They’ll be such good little socialists.
They were never learning, Haven’t been for years. I am sure they are depressed and isolated though. They see this future created by RATs and the CCP and find nothing to strive and live for.
Depressed? Not learning? Perfect. They’ll be such good little socialists.
A battle engagement for some?
They weren’t learning anything anyway. Except maybe trans/lesbian/homosexuality/climate change/orange man bad
Was talking to a co-worker last night. She has a brother who is a child psychologist in Nevada.
They were at a family birthday gathering and he informs her that he is seeing 4X the normal # of patients ...children.
My grandaughter stays with us sometimes and we get to see her go to “online school” It is a complete and utter waste of time. She’d learn a lot more just randomly going through classes on Khanacademy.org. Seriously.
If we had kids in school we’d have taken them out last april. But then, if we had school aged kids, we would have been home schooling anyway. We have zero respect for the public school system.
Given San Pelosishitsco schools, learning will not occur within or without those palaces of ignorance.
Having a child in publik skoolz should be and hopefully will soon be a sign of child neglect.
My grandkids did great during the lockdown in Arizona. Some of them are part of a large family where they were their own social group, but all the cousins hung out together online.
It’s the side effects of living in a leftist insane asylum like San Francisco.
Excellent point. And this is not unexpected as this eventuality of what Americans' fear, ignorance and cowardice has been doing -- and continues to do -- to children has been known for many months now.
What the governors, unelected bureaucrats and their "medical experts" of choice have done -- deliberately and with the cooperation and even encouragement of so very many American parents -- has stolen an entire year of kids' lives ... it is absolutely criminal, damnable in a a civilized society!
Agree, this will have a lasting impression that will go on for decades, they are destroying people’s lives because they hate Trump.
I would suggest that if they do not go to church, it may be a good time to start.
If by COVID you mean the pseudo pandemic political response, then you are right, but pointing out the obvious.
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