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I wonder how many of these students claiming a "mental health day" actually rest, and not consume their time checking their phones - which, in the world of constant likes, pings, feedback, etc. - is a cause of a lot of angst in this country.
Students already use sick days for so called mental health days. If you don't feel well, what ever the reason, you are under the weather. I don't like making it a separate excuse.
What?! Do you honestly believe that a more diverse variety of days off throughout the year will change our nations suicide rate? Are you crazy?
What you're throwing into this conversation is madness. It's like putting a band-aid over a cancerous tumor while calling the surgeons crazy for scheduling surgery. Absolute madness.
Next time before you go ranting and raving and insulting others, read the original article that started the thread.
Students already use sick days for so called mental health days. If you don't feel well, what ever the reason, you are under the weather. I don't like making it a separate excuse.
So when people are asked, "would you like to go back to being a child again"? almost no one says yes. We have platitudes about it, but almost no one would choose to go back there.
Why? Because you have no power as a child. You have no choices. You go where you're told, when you're told no matter how very intolerable it is or how much you're dreading it.
Adults don't have that. We have choices. (Granted, some people refuse to exercise those choices and instead always see barriers to improvement).
I'd love to go back to 9 or 10 years old. I had money (that I earned- routes for three different newspapers, one with both a morning and an evening edition), choices and transportation. The world was an exciting place to be explored, new wonders around every corner.
I'm thankful for these types of people entering the job pool. Going to be that much easier for my kids to be successful, even easier than in past generations.
Students already use sick days for so called mental health days. If you don't feel well, what ever the reason, you are under the weather. I don't like making it a separate excuse.
True. Probably 50% of my sick days from school were mental health days. More as I was getting older and having more mental health issues.
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They are already entitled to take up to five sick days every three months, but that's not enough for them?!
What a pampered generation of wimps. They think everything is about Them.
Whoa, Java, back away from the coffee pot because your reading comprehension is seriously impacted.
They are not getting any additional days. They are only adding "mental health" as an excused absence. This has nothing to do with "snowflakes" and really it's just box-checking. Students are allowed x "excused" days and y "unexcused" days. If they exceed either or both, the state gets involved, as the student may not meet required attendance to advance to the next grade and the parents may face consequences for not providing appropriate education.
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