Kids' own reports, and the timing of mental breakdowns and suicides over the school calendar, make it clear that school has become a major source of students' psychological distress.
This is the fifth in a series of posts, aimed at understanding the causes of the changes in suicide rates among U.S.in the series I introduced the graph and solicited readers’ theories about possible causes of the changes in suicide rates depicted.
No Child Left Behind and Common Core Reduced the Enjoyable Aspects of School and Augmented the Stressful Aspects. • A high school junior was devastated to see that she didn't get a perfect 4.0 on her report card. The mother reported,"She had a total meltdown, cried for hours; I couldn't believe her reaction."
Still further evidence of the role of school pressure in teens’ mental breakdowns derives from research by Suniya Luthar and her colleagues showing that rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide attempts are much higher for students at “high-achievement schools” than for those at more typical schools. High-achievement schools were defined by the researchers as those where test scores are especially high and a large percentage of graduates go on to elite colleges.
In the graph near the top of this post you can see a brief decline in suicide rates from 2019 to 2020. That decline reflects the decline in teen suicides in the months of school lockdown.To fully understand the damage to kids’ mental health resulting from NCLB and Common Core we must also consider the ways that kindergarten and preschool changed because of these federal interventions.
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