As someone who graduated high school a couple years ago, it was fucking terrible. Half our grade was depressed and they put infinitely more energy into suspending and even arresting people for vaping/weed than doing a single thing for mental health.
When I was 15 I told my school counselor I felt depressed, anxious, hopeless, etc. They literally didn't do shit, even direct me to any resources, until after I went to a hospital for being suicidal. Even then it felt very performative, my counselor even implied our generation has it easier. When I was 16 we went into covid lockdown and it honestly felt like a breath of fresh air.
At my school they pretend to care about our mental health and actually have school therapists and councilors, but refuse to do what would actually help all of us and we ask for: reducing the school day and homework load. Scratch that, they reduced the school day by like ten minutes by cutting recess.
stg school counsellors should be held accountable for neglect because ive never heard of any who have actually helped mentally ill children. when i got sent to mine after missing school and told him i was extremely depressed and anxious he was just like "so do you wanna go to college or not"
I told my counselor about my problems (autism, ADHD, OCD, PTSD, all undiagnosed and untreated) and he told me I was addicted to playing the guitar and told me I should try walking to the library after school.
Yeah this unfortunately tracks. It was bad 5-10 years ago and its significantly worse now
As someone who graduated high school a couple years ago, it was fucking terrible. Half our grade was depressed and they put infinitely more energy into suspending and even arresting people for vaping/weed than doing a single thing for mental health.
When I was 15 I told my school counselor I felt depressed, anxious, hopeless, etc. They literally didn't do shit, even direct me to any resources, until after I went to a hospital for being suicidal. Even then it felt very performative, my counselor even implied our generation has it easier. When I was 16 we went into covid lockdown and it honestly felt like a breath of fresh air.
Meanwhile, corporate-controlled media bangs on with the message that teens hated quarantine and wanted back to school
At my school they pretend to care about our mental health and actually have school therapists and councilors, but refuse to do what would actually help all of us and we ask for: reducing the school day and homework load. Scratch that, they reduced the school day by like ten minutes by cutting recess.
Assigning homework should be a literal crime that people go to jail for
Yeah and not just for kids, any work assignment that can't be done at work should be illegal
My counsellors were sympathetic but lacked the power to change anything
stg school counsellors should be held accountable for neglect because ive never heard of any who have actually helped mentally ill children. when i got sent to mine after missing school and told him i was extremely depressed and anxious he was just like "so do you wanna go to college or not"
I told my counselor about my problems (autism, ADHD, OCD, PTSD, all undiagnosed and untreated) and he told me I was addicted to playing the guitar and told me I should try walking to the library after school.