Dec 20, 2019, Concord, MA, Billerica Wicked: Billerica Public Schools look at student social and emotional well-being https://billerica.wickedlocal.com/news/20191220/billerica-public-schools-look-at-student-social-and-emotional-well-being With mental health both for adults and children becoming less of a taboo and more of a critical need, more schools around the country, including Billerica Public Schools, are making the move to support not only the educational needs of their pupils but their social/emotional health. … McCann said he works directly with the district’s head of school nurses to make sure each campus is on the same page when it comes to the services offered to students and families. He also helps coordinate the guidance councilors and the four social/emotional coaches at the elementary level. The district made SELFF coach an official position in 2017 according to Assistant Superintendent Jill Geiser. She said they were created to identify early any social/mental health issues a student might be experiencing. The sooner an area of concern is pinpointed, the easier it is to find resources and solutions for the student, with the hope of making school and learning easier in the long run…. Melinda Cripps, director of the guidance department, has been working with McCann in-district since 2004 and echoed the sentiments of Geiser and McCann having seen the toll that mental health issues can take on students as young as 12 and 13. When asked what she has seen most at the middle school level, she said, “anxiety and depression” are the most common. “It something going on in most districts,” said Cripps. “It is something are the whole country is looking at.”
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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.
Loss of Brain Trust features over 9,000 news stories published worldwide since January, 2017
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What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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