“A new study, published this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), finds a striking correlation … ‘that youth suicides are closely tied with in-person school attendance.’ ”
Related: The Public Schools are Grooming Your Kid for a Lifetime of Anxiety and Depression
Mind blowing?
The FEE.org article refers to this Dec 2022 report from The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), which found a corollary between suicide rates and school attendance.
We document three key findings. First, using data from the National Vital Statistics System from 1990-2019, we document the historical association between teen suicides and the school calendar. We show that suicides among 12-to-18-year-olds are highest during months of the school year and lowest during summer months (June through August) and also establish that areas with schools starting in early August experience increases in teen suicides in August, while areas with schools starting in September don’t see youth suicides rise until September.
Public Schools are killing your kids. *Or, more accurately, something about the experience is driving them to kill themselves. And it is not a pandemic lockdown distance learning issue, not that this didn’t take a toll. The NERB study covers pre-pandemic years, as does an earlier Vanderbilt study also cited in the Fee.org piece.
This new study echoes earlier findings from Vanderbilt University researchers who discovered a similar link between school attendance and youth suicidal ideation and attempts. That research, published in the journal Pediatrics in 2018, looked at hospital emergency room and inpatient data between 2008 and 2015. “The lowest frequency of encounters occurred during summer months,” the Vanderbilt authors concluded. “Peaks were highest in fall and spring. October accounted for nearly twice as many encounters as reported in July,” they found.
Another point of interest: “Youth suicide rates have been climbing over the past decade, leaving parents, educators, and policymakers to propose various remedies.”
Like going to war with parents over ownership of children’s minds and bodies. Partisan indoctrination that can put children at ideological odds with their parents. Sexualizing or grooming them with the transgender agenda? Social Emotional Learning, Critical Race Theory, pornography, restorative justice, JBAB, and a thousand other shocks that have little or nothing to do with math, reading, history, and science.
Maybe if public schools focused on academics and teaching kids how to learn instead of what to think, we wouldn’t be facing this cold, hard truth. Sending your kids to public school increases the odds they’ll try to kill themselves.
And I get that this is an oversimplification, but I’m sure you’ll work it all out in the comments.
