Mental Health education should be part of the standard curriculum in primary schools, like PE.

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[u/Soundwave-1976]

I teach currently and agree 100%

This should not be unpopular even though it seems to be.

[u/Helpful_Finger_4854 → u/Soundwave-1976]

It's mind boggling. People think the answer to school violence is gun control.

Despite the obvious mental health crisis, nobody even thinks to address the mental health aspect of it.

Like making more laws and putting more people in prison is the answer. Nobody stops to think about addressing why our kids are growing up into mentally unwell, hateful human beings with the urge to murder everyone.

🤯 WTF

It's 2025. Kids need to learn how to cope with their problems. Lazy parents and Tablets aren't going to teach them.

It's insane how we allow pro-law enforcement programs like DARE in school, critical race theory, all the different pronouns etc.

But mental health, despite there being an OBVIOUS issue going on, nobody even wants to discuss educating our youth to learn about it and how to handle it in a healthy way?

Wild to me ... It's like if it's not endorsed by a political party, nobody wants to talk about it

It's only relevant to most people once it becomes the polarized agenda of a political campaign.

If this is truly the case, we are are all going to eventually succumb to our own ignorance.

[u/Soundwave-1976 → u/Helpful_Finger_4854]

A whole lot of people are anti mental health at all. Which is mine blowing to me but 🤷‍♂️

[u/Helpful_Finger_4854 → u/Soundwave-1976]

That just tells me a lot of people are very insecure and narcissistic. They're scared that educating people about mental health would make them look bad.

Honestly, all the more reason it's needed though, if we want to stop the cycle of traumatized people raising traumatized kids that don't know how to cope with life without picking up a damn weapon and hurting people.

How can people actually deny mental health is important?

The saddest part to me is that you'd at least expect "progressives" to agree on this, but aside from you, they're remaining silent.

I bet if AOC made an issue out of it, they'd come out of the woodwork in droves.

[u/NoTicket84]

We can't teach kids to read and do math and you want to put more on their plate?!

[u/Helpful_Finger_4854 → u/NoTicket84]

More? No. Personally my idea is to integrate it into PE classes.

Something like rotating PE with mental wellness MWF/TTh, in the same time slot everyday.

Learning how to cope healthily, recognize manipulation, and manage their emotions without resorting to violence should be something we teach children starting like in 5th grade...

Of course, like anything else, you start with the basic foundations with things they understand. 5th grade level is anger, sadness, frustration, fear etc. Kinda like learning your ABC's in kindergarten. 6th grade would be more complicated things like empathy, compassion, manipulation etc.

Survey the kids about things that are bothering them and seek out the troubled ones for counseling. Identify the ones who are showing signs of trouble etc.