Oregon will allow students to take “mental health days” just as they would sick days, expanding the reasons for excused school absences to include mental or behavioral health
I fully support this as a teacher. Mental health issues for students are real and rising. Every teacher I know sometimes uses a sick day as a "mental health day" on account of the stresses of the...
I fully support this as a teacher. Mental health issues for students are real and rising.
Every teacher I know sometimes uses a sick day as a "mental health day" on account of the stresses of the job (many of which are linked directly to the mental health of our students). It's only fair that students have the same opportunity we do. I also think it would go a long way in contextualizing "invisible" issues as real for a lot of disbelieving parents. I've witnessed plenty over the years who believe their child's clinical anxiety/depression is just moodiness/rebellion/fragility.
Yeah, I could of used this as a kid, especially since if you can take time off when you feel bad mentally, you can head it off from it becoming a physical illness, which lays you out for longer,...
Yeah, I could of used this as a kid, especially since if you can take time off when you feel bad mentally, you can head it off from it becoming a physical illness, which lays you out for longer, and gives you the chance of passing it to someone else.
On one hand I think I would definitely have used this. But at the same time I spent a LOT of year 12 speed running quake in class so I may well have just abused it to fuck about too..
On one hand I think I would definitely have used this. But at the same time I spent a LOT of year 12 speed running quake in class so I may well have just abused it to fuck about too..
I fully support this as a teacher. Mental health issues for students are real and rising.
Every teacher I know sometimes uses a sick day as a "mental health day" on account of the stresses of the job (many of which are linked directly to the mental health of our students). It's only fair that students have the same opportunity we do. I also think it would go a long way in contextualizing "invisible" issues as real for a lot of disbelieving parents. I've witnessed plenty over the years who believe their child's clinical anxiety/depression is just moodiness/rebellion/fragility.
Yeah, I could of used this as a kid, especially since if you can take time off when you feel bad mentally, you can head it off from it becoming a physical illness, which lays you out for longer, and gives you the chance of passing it to someone else.
On one hand I think I would definitely have used this. But at the same time I spent a LOT of year 12 speed running quake in class so I may well have just abused it to fuck about too..