The findings of this study align with experiences in our communities of neurodivergent and disabled people, where we reframe “school refusal” as “school-induced anxiety”. Bullying is only a part of the problem.
We have autistic children who need us to support them as architects of their own liberation against the schools and clinicians and institutions and police and prosecutorswho would crush and destroy them.
Suicidology update: School closures & Child suicide
These economists *really* analyse the data in technical ways to demonstrate the key point i made way back:
Child suicide dropped tremendously when “school shutdowns highest,” & increased when schools opened
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This looks like another important paper on schooling during the pandemic. The authors find that in-person schooling was associated with MORE teen suicides. I have something to read on my flight now.https://t.co/jn7OHeh5pZpic.twitter.com/HBUWvp5Yue
People who follow me are used to this data, of course, but they ran it statistically to correspond at the county level to foot traffic, school foot traffic, seasonality, and in a number of covariates like race and method.
they posit a bullying/school stress hypothesis
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The net effect until the last possible month we can measure (May 2022)?
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dephinia
“You who build the altars now
To sacrifice these children
You must not do it anymore
A scheme is not a vision
You never have been tempted
By a demon or a god
“You who stand above them now
Your hatchets blunt and bloody
You were not there before
When I lay upon a mountain
And my father’s hand was trembling
With the beauty of the word” –‘Story of Isaac’ by Leonard Cohen (my favorite cover is Suzanne Vega’s)
(There’s something about power, hierarchies, the multilevel marketing scheme of academia, that’s like an itch out of reach of articulating, in my brain. But a mountain is shaped like a pyramid, and there were stepped pyramids, and the image of a small being climbing up to sacrifice another small being to a paternalistic figure high above… all this aches in the bones of my thoughts.)
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