When the country locked down in the wake of COVID-19, there were a great many of us who warned that it would not only have a terrible effect on the economy but also on mental health.
In particular, I knew it would have a deep impact on kids who were kept out of school. Children and teens thrive on social interaction – in fact, it’s one of the key ways they develop – and when the federal government conspired with teachers unions to keep schools closed, it was easy to see what the result would be. In the wake of those decisions – Randi Weingarten has never been, and probably will never be, taken to task for what she did to our kids – their mental health predictably crumbles.
There’s a piece in The Atlantic that I’ve cited before as to just how bad things have gotten. It was written in 2022, but it still holds up.
The government survey of almost 8,000 high-school students, which was…
