Rashida Tlaib Is Mad About Trump Bombing Terrorists
There's a Topic Missing From the Annual Threat Assessment Report
CIA Director Ratcliffe Blows Up the Liberal Media's Secret War Plans Narrative
Judge Who Thinks Nazis Got Better Treatment Than Illegal Aliens Being Deported Got...
Stop Caring About the Silly Signal Non-Scandal
Trump Just Won Two Critical Victories in Court, but the Battle Isn't Over...
Federal Employees Are Looking for New Jobs As the DOGE Chainsaw Nears
New Bill Seeks to Right Potential Federal Wrongs on Suppressors
Hillary Clinton Just Chimed in on the 'Signalgate' Saga
Cattle Grazing Program Exposed: Costs Taxpayers Billions
As Jasmine Crockett Targets Ted Cruz, Elon Musk Isn't the Only One She's...
A Few Thoughts on 'Signalgate'
Jasmine Crockett Just Mocked This Disabled GOP Governor
Rashida Tlaib Won't Condemn Acts of Domestic Terrorism Against Tesla
Here's 10 Theories to Analyze on Why Democrats Lost, and Why They May...
Tipsheet

An Emerging and Tragic Side Effect of COVID Has Hit San Francisco

AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

As lazy teachers and their unions continue to fight going back to school in an effort to extend their summer vacation, kids are dying. They’re committing suicide at alarming rates due to the lack of in-person learning, social interaction, after-school activities, and sports. It's causing kids to become depressed at exponential rates. They’re also not learning.

Advertisement

I think parents have known this for months, but now there’s solid data to reinforce this commonsense point. Little kids cannot sit still in front of a computer screen. Also, not everyone has Internet access. To liberal America and the elites, you know this undercuts your "stay at home, we’re all in this together" war cry, right?

I think this was already happening in the red states, but dead kids from Republican states don’t matter in their eyes. It only matters when it started to creep into the blue states, which has happened. In Clark County, Nevada, its school district is rushing to reopen schools as soon as humanly possible due to a spike in student suicides. And now, in San Francisco, they’re seeing the same tragedies, which prompted the city to yank its own school board into court in an effort to get kids back in the classroom. These schools have been closed for over a year (via NY Post):

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced last week he was taking the dramatic step of suing the city’s own school district, which has kept its classrooms closed nearly a year. In the motion filed Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court, Herrera included alarming testimony from hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area, doctors and parents on the emotional and mental harms of extended distance learning.

One mother, Allison Arieff, said she had recently found her 15-year-old daughter “curled up in a fetal position, crying, next to her laptop at 11 am” Arieff said her daughter often cries in the middle of the day out of frustration and “is losing faith not just in SFUSD but in the world.”

Another mother, Lindsay Sink, has seen a “major regression” in her 7-year-old son who has “uncontrollable meltdowns that turn (the) whole house upside down.” Sink’s 10-year-old daughter is experiencing “depression and anger” and she fears her daughter’s “mental health will continue to suffer” until in-person learning resumes.

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital has seen a 66 percent increase in the number of suicidal children in the emergency room and a 75 percent increase in youth who required hospitalization for mental health services, the lawsuit said, quoting pediatricians, child psychiatrists and emergency room doctors.

Advertisement

As long as teachers’ unions drag their feet and deny the science behind schools in the COVID era, which is that it's been safe to reopen them for quite some time, nothing will happen. The unions are too big an ally for the Democratic Party to anger. They will need their help in the 2022 midterms. Don’t expect much movement. I would be happy to see a seismic shift occur, but don’t bet the mortgage. 

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Townhall Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement