"Returning to school" solves NONE of the pre-pandemic mental health problems our kids, which were increasing and substantial. It is not the same world it was pre-pandemic, and we are all under pandemic pressure.
It is a fantasy to pretend like "returning" brings things back.
It is a fantasy to pretend like "returning" brings things back.
I mean... I get the fantasy. It's alluring. We all kinda wish we could go back to 2019 and just... you know... keep going there.
But we can't. Kids are under MORE pressure today, not less, and its not just 'missing school' (in fact, if you asked them...)
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But we can't. Kids are under MORE pressure today, not less, and its not just 'missing school' (in fact, if you asked them...)
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It's 1.5 million kids worldwide being orphaned.
It's entire economies and ways of life shifting.
It's a postpandemic world that is mid-new-variant and another worse variant away from retreat.
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It's entire economies and ways of life shifting.
It's a postpandemic world that is mid-new-variant and another worse variant away from retreat.
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It's everything NONPANDEMIC that's happened in the past 2 years.
It's the fallout from all the new changes that workplaces, schools, and societies must necessarily make.
It's the climate crisis that continues.
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It's the fallout from all the new changes that workplaces, schools, and societies must necessarily make.
It's the climate crisis that continues.
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Time moves forwards, not backwards.
Even If we simply extraplolate the way things were going for kids mental health from 2019 to now, it's not like we'd expect 2022 to be awesome. And we've added a world-crushing pandemic.
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Even If we simply extraplolate the way things were going for kids mental health from 2019 to now, it's not like we'd expect 2022 to be awesome. And we've added a world-crushing pandemic.
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Everyone, please, if you're going to TALK about, CARE, or even PRETEND TO CARE about the mental health of kids, can we please come up with something more substantial for our kids than "return them to the place we were really worried about in 2019?"
ugh and i need to edit my tweets before hitting send. sorry, all.
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