Aug 1, 2018, Davis (CA) Enterprise: Back to School — Boosting elementary counseling https://www.davisenterprise.com/special-editions/back-to-school-boosting-elementary-counseling/
In June, the Davis Board of Education approved a full-time counselor position for each comprehensive elementary school. Hiring is underway this summer.
With a full-time counselor in place, the school district’s elementary schools will offer a more comprehensive social-emotional curriculum and counseling staff will be afforded the opportunity to create multi-tiered systems of support, targeting our students who are most likely to thrive and benefit from small and more intensive interventions and structures.
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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