Schools are over doing it on the mental health awareness

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to go out on a limb and throw the "active shooter" drills into the same category as mental health. There are over 130,000 K-12 schools in the U.S. and excluding individual incidents, the chance of having to hide from another Columbine, Sandy Hook, or Uvalde type killer is too miniscule to warrant this level of attention. It broadly reflects the freakonomics that Americans practice in the sense of spending the majority of their resources mitigating the most remote risks while overlooking the big ones.

that's an interesting one.

While I think it's important to have those drills, if they overdue it, the kids stop taking it seriously.

My kid's school had an active lockdown not that long ago. DC was super scared as were a lot of other kids. They followed the drills and did what they were supposed to. Some of the girls were crying. But, there were certainly some kids who didn't take it seriously and were talking loudly in the classroom.

[Anonymous]

In agreement with PP who said that we've become desensitized to what these diagnoses actually mean because they've become part of our daily language.

The teenage years are a time when kids are going through tough changes and are trying to figure out who they are. They are naturally focused on themselves, and I think that the constant drumbeat of wellness at school reinforces the inward-looking tendency. Then online content they seek or are served reinforces it again.