After Student Suicide Rate Doubles, Las Vegas Looks at Reopening Schools
The superintendent of the school district that includes Las Vegas is pushing to reopen his schools after the suicide rate among students more than doubled since the schools were closed out of fear of COVID-19, the New York Times reported.
Clark County School District, the nation’s fifth-largest district, shuttered its schools in March. Over the next nine months, 18 students took their own lives. In the entire previous year, only nine students committed suicide.
“When we started to see the uptick in children taking their lives, we knew it wasn’t just the COVID numbers we need to look at anymore,” Clark County superintendent Jesus Jara told the Times. “We have to find a way to put our hands on our kids, to see them, to look at them. They’ve got to start seeing some movement, some hope.”...