one solution to improving mental health access is building mental health basics into (K-12) public school curriculum, increasing mental health pros on staff, offer trauma-informed training to staff, and raising teacher/school staff pay can you imagine the difference it would make?

Exactly why it will never happen. Pessimistic of me, I know, but it’s just too logical to become reality.

That would be a game changer.

This is all great. We could start by replacing every SRO with a mental health professional.

Imagine if people got mad about the amount of money the US education system gives spends on standardized testing for bullshit scores instead of books and woke

Adding curriculum for life skills (home ec), financial literacy, correspondence training, how Civics personally affects them, and executive functioning improvement skills would set students up for thriving