re: Oregon students can now take “mental health” days off

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can remember middle school being a pretty traumatic experience for me. Being poor and not having the nicer clothes and being a goofy looking kid made my life hell. Would come home and go straight to my room crying many days. And that was the late 80s/early 90s. Like you couldn't pay me 10 million dollars to relive those years. Many girls that age are vicious, cruel bitches in pre-teenage bodies.

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Middle school days for me wasn’t as bad as high school. I was a nerdy kid with those big wire rimmed glasses in the early 90s. Was about 5’5, 150lbs throughout HS.

The anomaly was that when it came to sports, I was accepted and no one had a problem with me. As far as socially though, super outcast and wasn’t invited to pretty much anything. Had a few guys make it known etc etc. still to this day, I hold grudges against a select few. Saw one about a year ago and he went to try to say hello to me and I acted like I didn’t even see him. I firmly believe that my HS years ruined my confidence and how I acted socially a few years after. Once I got out of high school, things got better. I learned how to act socially and made more friends. But it wasn’t easy.

if you think they "teach" anything other then hating america, socialism is the only answer, and liberals are the only ones who arent racists, then you are delusional

He's in the upper echelon of posters who are consistently wrong about everything on this site

It's quite remarkable

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We're going to pretend that's what PTO means?

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I have vacation and PTO (personal time off)

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High school is not so difficult that a kid should need a “mental health” day.

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Why are you choosing to get hung up on verbiage like a snow flake.

All it means is you no longer have to get a doctor’s note to use already allocated excusable days off.

You can use it to party or to deal with embarrassing illnesses like blowing up the toilet every half hour

Is that a problem though?

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Is that a problem though?

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Im not here to say. The initial poster was saying how this would eliminate people calling in sick and it appears that he thinks it will help attendance.

That was what my original comment was about.

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I can remember middle school being a pretty traumatic experience for me. Being poor and not having the nicer clothes and being a goofy looking kid made my life hell. Would come home and go straight to my room crying many days. And that was the late 80s/early 90s. Like you couldn't pay me 10 million dollars to relive those years.

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Man that was 100% what my middle school experience was like. I hated basically all of it.

HS was much better for me. I found people that I clicked with and started doing well academically, but I know plenty of people who hated HS and, I get it. I know what that’s like.

And today, all of the crappy parts of HS are boiled down into some kind of crack-like concentrate and fed to kids via social media and mobile devices. The teenage mental health crisis began to take off in the mid-to-late 2000s...right when twitter started to become a thing, Facebook expanded outside of college campuses and smartphones became ubiquitous.

I have a rising sophomore and senior and the social world they have to navigate is night and day different from mine was. The stuff they worry about. The things I have to monitor for. The ways they socialize. None of this was a thing when I grew up in the 90s. Yet we have some e-badasses in here saying “wasn’t hard for me a million years ago...they just need to toughen up”.

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You have an issue with a student taking a personal day?

Want to know what the difference is? At work you EARN days off......not so much for students.

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Mental health days which are just another name for a personal day btw are great, and who knows maybe this will lead to less nutjobs shooting up schools.