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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]
Is there ANY evidence that what he is suggesting works?

There is evidence that throwing more money at the problem doesn't always work.
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No.    Mental health supports are helpful, but not particularly preventative.   Anyone who's had a kid in therapy for years realizes that a mental health counselor isn't going to be much use in discrete incidents in schools.

They should have layered SROs with additional mental health supports.  They could have improved accountability for SROs across the board, and they already identified some ways to help reduce racial disparities.  But that wasn't good enough.    It's all performative, and they don't seem to care what actually happens to kids.

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Any kids with long term health issues, its not going to be helpful.  But, for a one time crisis it might be.  But, reality is those kids in a one term crisis need more mental health treatment.[/quote]

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