Dec 15, 2019, Oregonian: Oregon City 4th grader dies by suicide https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/2019/12/oregon-city-4th-grader-dies-by-suicide.html Elijah Hauff was only 9 years old when he took his own life on Dec. 10…. “Elijah was very loving, very caring; he cares about people," Salina Martinez, the boy’s aunt, told KATU. “He’s just an amazing little boy, and his life was taken too short.” “I’m in shock," she said. Hauff’s aunt said the boy had been bullied, felt unloved and had even spoken about his suicidal ideations. … The second one of these “Coffee Talks” at Holcomb Elementary School is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 17 at 4 p.m. Parents and guardians of children who attend the school will be able to talk to Holcomb’s principal, Kelli Rhea, as well as Galli Murray, Clackamas County’s Suicide Prevention Coordinator, and John Ogden, Oregon City School District’s Director of Human Resources, and a licensed counselor. In the letter to parents about Hauff’s death, Didway said the school would be providing more mental health resources for students. “You should have had it before, you should have had it for the kids that needed it,” Martinez told KATU. “It could have helped them. I’m glad that they have it here. I’m glad, but it’s too late for Elijah.”
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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.
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Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
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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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