Posted on 12/06/2022 6:44:37 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The COVID-19 pandemic sent Heidi Whitney’s daughter into a tailspin.
Suddenly the San Diego middle schooler was sleeping all day and awake all night. When in-person classes resumed, she was so anxious at times that she begged to come home early, telling the nurse her stomach hurt.
Whitney tried to keep her daughter in class. But the teen’s desperate bids to get out of school escalated. Ultimately, she was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward, failed “pretty much everything” at school and was diagnosed with depression and ADHD.
As she started high school this fall, she was deemed eligible for special education services, because her disorders interfered with her ability to learn, but school officials said it was a close call. It was hard to know how much her symptoms were chronic or the result of mental health issues brought on by the pandemic, they said.
“They put my kid in a gray area,” said Whitney, a paralegal.
Schools contending with soaring student mental health needs and other challenges have been struggling to determine just how much the pandemic is to blame. Are the challenges the sign of a disability that will impair a student’s learning long term, or something more temporary?
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Another successful lockdown story…
Crazy kids
Uneducated kids
ODs
Alcohol deaths
Suicide
New addicts
Tons of new Psych patients
Destruction of small businesses
Even fatter Americans
I doubt the “pandemic” has anything at all to do with it.
What the ‘tards did in “response” is another matter entirely.
Two weeks, to flatten the curve
Not special education but EDUCATION is at fault.
[[Schools contending with soaring student mental health needs and other challenges have been struggling to determine just how much the pandemic is to blame]]
Once again, they ignore the elephant in the room, ie crt and sexual indoctrion and racial divides and constant gaslighting about everything from gender to climate crap being passed as “education” these days
They have kids so freaked out over “white supremacy”, causing them to hate themselves, freaked about uttering the wrong personal pronoun, and freaked over the environment, thinking we are all doomed, and freaked about “racist statues of historical,figures”, and freaked out about not being a tyranny when all the “cool kids are”, that it’s no wonder these kids are mentally disturbed now!
If she can perform well at night, but not the day then she doesn’t belong in Special Education classes.
ARTH Ping!..................
It’s not just the lockdowns that did it- its all the stinking gaslighting and scare mongering that the schools inflict on kids these days that is causing mental problems left and right. The lockdowns just increased the problems
Two weeks, to flatten society, sanity, and civilization.
fixed it.
The answer is to abolish public school and get rid of lesbian teachers
Well, keeping her daughter in a public school certainly won’t help the daughter’s mental issues and will likely make them far worse.
I don’t have much to say except....in my day....someone’s a$$ was gonna get beat...
No matter the answer to these sorts of questions, this becomes more evidence of an attack on the West in general, as ginned up by a mix of population explosion fanatics, "hack" the body with mRNA technology and, quite evident, "lock down" Western economies, all of which benefit the aims of the ChiComs, Western Leftist elite and their supporters.
Gates is an example, but one of many, who embody these facets all in one gestalt, as one recalls Gates saying that the ChiComs were combating Covid correctly, and as the Gates-supported WHO were and are busy trying to get Western nations to cede to their authority based on "health." Other examples may be found in Obama who'd said that China could "get things done" that were difficult in the US, and in the EU Commission elite who wanted the "green pass" surveillance state since long before the so-called pandemic.
One also observes this in the larger frame that the SARS CoV2 "pandemic" has generated the following data point -- the almost three-year mortality rate for the "severe" and "deadly" virus is 0.0836 percent, making the survival rate for the entire population over the same period to be 99.92 percent.
For this, surveillance state digital passes, mandated jabs and lock downs of whole economies have been proposed again and again. The connections between these "dots" are glaringly visible now.
Agreed.
The good that came from lockdowns are:
1. Parents seeing the BS their children were learning.
2. Remote jobs.
3. Some awakening politically.
Two weeks, to flatten society, sanity, and civilization.
fixed it.
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It never was going to be two weeks, and everyone with braincells left KNEW IT.
They always lay on the biggest BS right at the beginning, when they need to get the ball rolling. Once it’s rolling, the slippery slope takes over. No one has the power to stop it. We all should have fought harder in the beginning.
It’s like this new border protection / DACA “path to citizenship” thing that the democrats are now pushing.
EVERYONE KNOWS THEY WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH BORDER PROTECTION!
It’s all about the DACA citizenship.
Once they get it, the law will be written. After that the president can use executive action to extend the law to more groups. It wont be considered unlawful in the courts because the law is already there, they just change the scope.
You have to recognize what is coming before they get away with it.
That’s why they pass so many huge, law-changing bills without letting anyone see it. Like Obama care, or the first covid stimulus bills. If people knew all the crap they were getting away with before the vote, they would stop it.
Having experienced "special ed" in San Diego in the 80s, it was far more competent than what we experienced in Pocatello in 2001. I can speak for the current state having left San Diego in early 2001.
The software should
I'm not sure how much this would help ADHD and/or anxiety. But I'm sure it would help ADHD remain focused. And as long as feedback is provided on progress, I'd think knowing they are on track would help anxiety.
It seems like there has been an explosion in anxiety and ADHD. What's behind it.
My daughter has ADHD. Straight A student, went to private college on full tuition scholarship. But noticed a problem when simple routine tasks took her over 10 times longer than it should have. She asked to be tested and was diagnosed.
After reviewing the symptoms, there is a very very high probability that I have it too. And likely her mom, so she inherited a double dose. My son missed out completely.
Very sorry to hear that. My condolences.
And hopefully more parents continuing with homeschooling, preferring not to send their kid’s back to the liberal hell holes called schools
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