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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Zoom or DL is not the problem. The lack of mental health services is.

[b]Newsflash[/b]: The mental issues your kids are having during distance learning would have happened anyway, you just wouldn't have noticed those issues until years down the line. And they won't magically stop because kids are in-person.

Kids were stressed, depressed, anxious, overmedicated, and overwhelmed [i]before[/i] COVID hit. Now those feelings are amplified.

If you really care about your child's mental health then stop going around blaming zoom or distance learning. That won't create any meaningful reform, just lots of sound bites that "the kids are alright" now that they're back doing in-person school. 
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Right, so mental health problems are caused solely by genetics?  Or are you just ignoring the significant environmental stressor that is the pandemic because it doesn’t fit your narrative?

Social stressors, especially in the multiple forms they take right now, can absolutely interact with other factors (including but not limited to genetic predispositions) and lead to mental health problems.  And when those stressors are removed or significantly reduced, yes, those problems can also remit.  In other words, indefinite remote learning can negatively impact children’s mental health, and returning to school in-person can improve it.  Not for all kids, but for many of them.[/quote]

The environmental stressor for the RTS crowd seems to be unstable and mentally unhealthy parents.  The kids with stable and mentally healthy parents are doing well on DL.[/quote]

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