news: coronavirus: This Stress also Depression Epidemic also, therefore, this Spending Disconnect

news: coronavirus: This Stress also Depression Epidemic also, therefore, this Spending Disconnect

We keep pouring money into our personal electronic devices like there's no tomorrow, always wanting more, always wanting the very latest-and schools aren't any different. In fact, $3.8 billion is spent on classroom technology every year-but 27% of it doesn't meet any learning goals!

Translation: $1 billion of your ed-tech tax dollars are wasted annually.

At the same time, within the name of funding issues, only three states provide kids with a minimum of 1 school counselor-formerly mentioned as guidance counselors-for every 250 students, as recommended. Equally troubling, just three others have a minimum of 1 school psychologist for each 750 students, so says federal data.

Put them together and what have you ever ever got? Rising rates of hysteria and depression in our youngsters with not much of a security net at the ready for them.

Moreover...

In a 2019 Pew Research Poll, 70% of surveyed teens agreed that stress, anxiety, and depression are a significant problem among their peers.

A 2017 American Psychological Association's Stress in America survey found that 60% of parents worry about social media's influence on their child's physical and mental state .

A recent NBC News/Survey Monkey poll found that almost 33% of 1,300 parents of 5- to 17-year-olds blamed social media for his or her children's mental and emotional health problems.

From 2009 to 2017, the CDC says that depression rates for those 14 to 17 rose by quite 60%.
According to the National Institute of mental state , an estimated 32% of adolescents suffer from a mental disturbance , with 12% of our 12- to 17-year-olds reporting one major depressive episode within the last year.

Between 2005 and 2017, the proportion of teens, 12 to 17, reporting major depressive symptoms rose from 8.7% to 13.2%, according to data from the National Survey of Drug Use and Health.
About such facts and arguing that teens address their smartphones as their "preferred social outlet," San Diego State University psychologist Jean Twenge says, "It suggests that something is seriously wrong within the lives of youngsters which whatever went wrong seemed to happen around 2012 or 2013."

they're spending less time sleeping, less time with their friends face-to-face... it isn't something that happened to their parents... "

University of Southern California Vice Provost for Campus Wellness & psychotherapy Varun San adds this: "At the idea of it is a way of disconnection. These are students who are so connected online. These are students who will have 1,000 friends online but struggle to make friends within the world ."

Also of note:

Of the 1,800 19- to 21-year-olds questioned, the University of Pittsburgh School of medicine found that the very best 25% of social media users are at greater risk of experiencing depression than the lowest 25%.

The University College London found that teens who use social media quite 5 hours every day showed a 50% increase in depressive symptoms among girls and a 35% jump among boys compared to the 1- to 3-hour users.

According to a UK Millennium Cohort study, 43% of girls said they spend 3 hours or more on social media, as did 21.9% of boys and 26% of those girls and 21% of those boys had higher depressive scores than those spending but 3 hours.

And now this just in: An analysis by the National Institutes of Health, the University of Albany, and NYU's Langone center found that babies as young as 12 months experience nearly one hour of screen time each day , and 3-year-olds put in additional than 150 minutes.
In other words, listen and set limits, following the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines that recommend NO screens for babies/toddlers under 18 months, with a gradual add-on between 18 to 24 months, and no quite one hour per day for the 2 to five-set.

And then tell your kids...

Not quite 2 hours every day on any device-other than computer-related homework.
No devices at the board or during quiet homework/study time aside from online assignments
No device use one hour before bedtime-too stimulating, plus the blue light wreaks havoc on sleep.
No going to bed with their smartphone in hand. If used as a wake-up alarm, buy a timepiece instead.

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