Teachers and Students Are Facing a Mental Health Crisis as School Year Begins

At one point toward the end of the 2023-2024 school year, Michelle Roman, a teacher at a public high school in Brooklyn, New York, began to cry in front of her students. “The kids were not doing what I was asking, I was preoccupied with things going on at home, and I burst into tears,” Roman told Truthout. “The students went completely silent, and while I tried to make a joke of it…

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