May is mental health month.There is an intersection of mental health for children with their experience in the educational system. Now it would be easy enough to explore the issues for the 14% of children who have definable mental health diagnoses and are significantly symptomatic. Their school function is impacted at the cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral levels. However, I thought we might turn to educational changes that have massively impacted the mental health of children in the last 40 years, looking at one dramatically positive evolution, and one decidedly negative change. However, when addressed together in the same piece, the terrible realities of the negative may so dominate that the positive gets lost. So I decided to use one piece to share the positive and one piece to share the negative. Read more...
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