Mar 5, 2018, Detroit MI, Macomb (County) Daily: Threats in Macomb County schools are a growing epidemic http://www.macombdaily.com/social-affairs/20180305/threats-in-macomb-county-schools-are-a-growing-epidemic … Increasingly, the school environment has less to do with teaching the three R’s and more to do with managing disorder created by highly-publicized school shootings and copy cat threats. … Thursday, Warren Mayor James Fouts and Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer hosted a roundtable discussion with representatives of city school districts, parochial schools and charter schools as well as officials and officers from Macomb Community College to discuss safety. The purpose was to exchange concerns and needs, and discuss how police and school officials can work together to prevent school shootings. … At Thursday’s Warren forum, school officials praised police for their effort as school resource officers in high schools, noting their presence has been effective in building relationships with students and to prevent violence. The educators welcome the idea of having officers working at middle schools throughout the day, too. … Smith said schools also need more counselors, and the government should provide more facilities for the mentally ill to halt the cycle of crime, drugs and homelessness.
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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.
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
http://www.ageofautism.com/media/
(John Dachel, Tech. assist.)
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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