Jan 7, 2018, Akron Beacon Journal: New parent-training program coming to Summit County to help control “difficult” kids https://www.ohio.com/akron/news/breaking-news-news/new-parent-training-program-coming-to-summit-county-to-help-control-difficult-kids Local organizations are joining forces to give parents the tools they need to gain control over their troubled children. Pastoral Counseling Service, a nonprofit mental health agency, is hosting a free breakfast with community members and leaders Wednesday to begin discussing its countywide implementation of the Parent Project. ... The Parent Project comes to the area at a time when the number of verbal and physical assaults by students against others in Akron Public Schools has “noticeably intensified” in the past year, according to a newsletter from the Akron Education Association teachers union. Punching, kicking, biting and name-calling are just some of the problematic classroom behaviors that teachers reported to the union in the last three months of 2017. …
Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.