Posted on 11/25/2021 1:29:57 PM PST by karpov
School districts nationwide are canceling classes for what they are calling mental-health days, saying students and staff need the breaks to handle the pressure of returning to school during the Covid-19 pandemic.
It is another way this era for K-12 education is unlike any other, as educators rush to make up for lost instructional time while simultaneously managing last-minute closures for quarantine, a lack of bus and cafeteria staff and, now, the need to take a break from stress.
The practice caught on in early November when many districts in the Southeast opted to create a long weekend by canceling school on Nov. 12, the Friday after Veterans Day, according to Burbio, a Pelham, N.Y., data company that is monitoring K-12 school closures in 5,000 districts across the country. The announcement of closures accelerated in the middle of the month as many school districts decided to cancel classes the entire week of Thanksgiving, said Dennis Roche, Burbio president.
“The volume was really high, really quickly,” he said.
There have been at least 3,145 school closures specifically for mental-health needs so far this year, predominantly in North Carolina, Virginia and Missouri, according to Burbio. That represents more than a third of the 8,692 school closures so far this year, which have mostly been for quarantine or staffing reasons.
Some school districts are citing mental health as the reason for scheduling half-days or virtual days on a continuing basis. The Detroit public schools announced Nov. 17 that there would be virtual instruction on three Fridays in December. Superintendent Nikolai P. Vitti cited the “concerns of school-based leaders, teachers, support staff, students, and families regarding the need for mental-health relief.”
Superintendents have commonly been the ones to schedule these mental-health days.
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I agree. Suck it up buttercup.
hand them all diplomas, send them home, and be done with it...
any of them that want to come back and actually learn something, gets a second diploma
Our rural schools went back last Fall albeit a month late. They’ve been back ever since.
Talking to a few teachers in my city, I understand there are some public high schools where the teachers walk the hallways terrified of the students.
Add on top of that all the nonsense they work themselves up about, it’s no surprise that the teachers are exhausted.
Public schools in a lot of areas just are not going to be an option anymore, and increasingly so. A symptom of a society in decline.
A managed, purposeful decline.
Teachers care about one thing...tenure.
Of course, some really do love it...but generally...let's face it...it's a job.
...” mental-health days, saying students and staff need the breaks to handle the pressure of returning to school during the Covid-19 pandemic”
...The millions of people who stayed home smoking pot and drinking while collecting money from the Fed and their state, all while not having to pay rent will need “mental health days” too. The pressure of returning to work will be more than they can handle.
Our heroes. Poor poor, pitiful teachers. 180 days of labor per year, far more than the working class. May cut it back to 90 days of indoctrination.
I’m still of the mind set that the Department of Education is unneeded and should be no longer be funded by federal funds. I know, that’s a little edgy.
If it is going to be funded, let the only funds it receives be allotted for the school lunch program and stop taking those funds from the Department of Agriculture.
Going to be a lot of pissed off parents....school is built to keep masses of yoots off the streets for good reason. At the same time I can totally understand a kid today saying what is even the point of school if you’re learning woke crap 24 7
Boehner and the Turtle and the Chamber of commerce ran Marlin Stutzman out of of town because he dared to suggest that
Kid will learn more on FR than in public schools!
An excuse for more time off. The problem is the same people are causing the mass hysteria giving kids the “mental problems”. Either way, keep your kids out of public schools.
How else do you create the next generation of ‘useful idiots’?
Although, it could be argued that kids in government run schools are being trained to be ‘useful idiots’
So it might be a good idea to give the kids more time away from their ‘useful idiot’ teachers.
Schools are so F’d up they need mental health days and employees who do nothing but de-escalate situations. Imagine throwing normal, well-adjusted kids into zoos like that.
Imagine these people trying to even survive as pioneers in horse drawn wagons
I’m on the frontlines, and I’m very thankful that I got my classroom training in a day-treatment center for “troubled teens”. I now sub at a local middle school.
The kids, by and large, are idiots, but there are a handful of great kids, and I have a way with them. I can handle the crazy ones (thanks to the treatment center, I actually work well with the messed up kids).
I will always side with the parents, and I’m shocked at how arrogant so many of my teacher associates are. “The parents dropped the ball during the pandemic!” is the usual battle cry, followed by, “We’re NOT baby sitters...”
The disconnect is shocking. Most teachers really are stupid — but if I can get in and try to be a positive influence on some students (and a lot of the students come from conservative families) that’s good.
When I was going into kidney failure as a teen, my school wanted to expel me for missing days, let alone mental health days.
We also had a longer day, from 07:45 until 15:10. The same achool now stafts at 09:00 and gets out at 15:00.
We didn’t even get mental health days for 9/11, and teachers were wheeling TV’s into our classrooms and common areas to keep up with the news. Now they give days off for the hell of it.
Obnoxious.
well, many of today’s teachers have mental problems. With the sneaking CRT material into curricula, introducing children to the homosexual world and indoctrination of Marxist ideology they have definitely gone of their bananas - off their rocker!! But I think more time off will only make the condition worse.
Yeah you’re right. He was making too much sense.
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