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By David Matthau September 17, 2017 8:10 PM
It may shock you to learn the suicide rate among middle school students is on the rise.
Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows between 2007 and 2014, there were 50 reported suicides among middle school students in New Jersey.
This is a growing problem, according to experts, because of cyber-bullying, social and academic pressures and fear and uncertainty about the dangerous world we live in.
“The belief in the past has always been that young people just didn’t struggle with mental health issues and that belief is starting to change” said Tricia Baker, the co-founder and program director of Attitudes in Reverse, a group that talks to Jersey kids in middle and high school about suicide.
“Fifty percent of mental health disorders present before age 14, and that’s why it’s so important we talk to young people about what mental health disorder are.”
Baker’s son Kenny took his own life in 2009 when he was 19 after struggling with mental health issues from the time he was a young child.
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I’m not surprised… they are not taught to be resilient, but to need safe spaces and the like…
Yes what what we here on the streets is that the kids are getting too much homework and they’re getting stressed out. There’s no need or reason to have multiple hours of homework. It should be just reviewing the next days work for testing. Let’s start teaching our kids commonsense
And you wonder why some parents pull their kids out of school and homeschool them. So they’re not so damn stressed out. First week of school two hours of homework give me a break. Believe me it’s all bullshit. This is not college. Half the shit you’re not gonna use when you get out of school, give it a break. Watch all the teachers to come on the blog now start crying. ?
The kids are watching their parents lose their jobs to off-shoring….kids aren’t stupid, the future for gainful corporate employment in this country is evaporating….
So true
To whom and by whom is this information required to be “reported”? Because the middle school is not “reporting” this information to the parents of the remaining students, except indirectly or “through the grapevine”. And certainly no contextual information is provided, unless one knows a friend of a friend. Rumors start that way.
Organized sports may be the culprit. Too stressful, kids need FREE TIME. All people do. Free time to be the real you and me, to just doodle, walk freely in nature. Gab with friends about imaginary stuff, lots to time for imagination. EVERY second is accounted for now. It’s like these kids are being trained for an army, for them life is boot camp on steroids.
wow… what a bunch of snowflake apologist adults/parents.
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No wonder kids think suicide is a solution – they are being taught to blame others for their (relatively) minor problems and not to face problems head on with the knowledge that no problem is so large that it cannot be overcome.
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Can you say stress, overwhelmed,pressure, and way too much homework equals disaster, straining of eyes, carpal tunnel syndrome. Pinch nerves headaches flat asses,