These are common Google search terms from visitors.
Can the web help students who, when school is making them feel suicidal, turn to Google for support?
I must see five or ten Google search hits like the above each week from students. What advice would you give? Do counselors help? Parents? Teachers? Organizations? Preachers or secular social workers? Early graduation/GED? Home-schooling? Books? Poems? Films? Songs?
Perhaps better: Do you have any success stories or experiential advice to share?
I once had parents who complained that the literature in class was too depressing. Their son suffered from bouts of depression. Was Romeo and Juliet appropriate for study for impressionable Grade 10 students?
I told the parents that the play is a celebration of life, not death.
We confronted the issue of suicide in the play with an emphasis upon the life affirming elements.
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I’ve read this post a couple of times now. Each time, I think about adding a comment and then I change my mind because it is such a complex issue. On the one hand, we have all had to deal with depression among teenagers, and I could give some clinical answer, of what I have done or been instructed to do.
Yet, the fact of the matter is that for many kids, school is depressing.
I hate the way we school our children, I really do. I hate the fact that our schools are like warehouses of children who are forced together because they were born during the same year.
The model that we use breeds a herd mentality and a Darwinian Survival of the Fittest.
It’s a nightmare for a sensitive child. Some teachers work very hard to create a nurturing environment, but many are caught up in the herd themselves.
It is definitely not the way to create thoughtful, creative individuals- in fact those very traits are the ones that can torture children who try to express some kind of individuality in a system designed to breed conformity.
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suicide is a permanent solution to temporary pain. school is temporary
well this doesn’t help the problem neither
It isn’t about the pointless crap we’re learning, or any other stupid reasons people say kids don’t want to go to school. I don’t see how people can not understand why I wouldn’t want to go to school. Maybe because I’m treated like a fucking slave? Like a subhuman piece of shit?? I have one friend in my entire high school, everyone else I’m only with because I’m being forced to share a tiny room with them. I have to ask for permission to get out of the fucking chair they force us to sit in. If I try to leave, I get arrested and treated like a criminal.
THANK YOU that’s exactly what I was looking for.
I’ve cut myself due to school. Bullying by students, and even fucking teachers.
Visit the facebook page http://www.facebook.com/BEENBULLIED?fref=ts I’ve Been Bullied … lots of great support and information that you can get involved in! Also they have a counselor that you can email into to speak with about the bullying, depression and suicide feelings. helpivebeenbullied@hotmail.com.com Sometimes all you need is someone to listen and be there for you.. please reach out.