Report: ‘Surge Of Student Suicides’ Forced Las Vegas School District To Return To In-Person Learning
By Emily Zanotti
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Jan 24, 2021 DailyWire.com
The nation’s fifth-largest school district, Clark County, Nevada schools, will return to in-person education “as quickly as possible” following a “surge” of student suicides in and around the county’s central city, Las Vegas, according to the New York Times.
The shocking news of a rash of student suicides in Nevada has school districts across the country rethinking the strategy of in-home and online learning amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and reconsidering their position that students might fully recover from a year spent out of the company of peers.
“The spate of student suicides in and around Las Vegas has pushed the Clark County district, the nation’s fifth-largest, toward bringing students back as quickly as possible,” the NYT reported Sunday. “This month, the school board gave the green light to phase in the return of some elementary school grades and groups of struggling students even as greater Las Vegas continues to post huge numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths.”
Mental health, they say, is intrinsically linked to physical health — something few entities considered during the virus’ first wave — and even though the risk of contracting and spreading the novel coronavirus remains high in places like Nevada, the risk of losing a generation to isolation-driven depression and anxiety is weighing heavy on administrators.
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Agreed, also just read that hundreds in my area will be getting their utilities shut off if they cant pay now. All allowances are over!