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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://twitter.com/willjawando/status/1457814401550065666?s=20[/twitter]

So he's calling for more mental health support for students, but where did it state the suspect was having a mental health crisis? I never saw that. Is he just making assumptions?[/quote]

It’s his talking point.  He does not know how to handle these situations.   [/quote]
[b]Is there ANY evidence that what he is suggesting works?  [/b]

There is evidence that throwing more money at the problem doesn't always work.
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Nope.  No, none at all.  [/quote]

Providing more mental health services is always a good thing.  Just like it would be a good thing to offer more remedial classes, better dyslexia screening and programs, tutoring, special education, special programs for kids with mental health issues (we have very limited programs), more ST, OT, PT for kids and even offer things like full neuropsych. evaluations for kids struggling to get a baseline and then actually offer directed services toward that.  We need to get kids very young at the elementary age, not wait till middle school and high school.   We need to screen all kids not reading starting in 1st grade and provide them with intensive reading supports.  Many of these kids act out as they cannot do the work, not because they are bad kids or down't want to.  Its less embarrassing to be the behavior kid than the kid who cannot read or write.

He has a very narrow viewpoint based off him having healthy kids who are probably, hopefully thriving.  [/quote]

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