jueves, 18 de noviembre de 2021

Help for a mental health club that wants to change school policy

I am a sophomore at a conservative/prestigious high school. I want to major in education in the future (maybe) and since I struggle a lot with mental health, I started a school program that wants to focus on educational policy and mental health. Our end goal is to improve student mental health. However, I’ve been noticing many flaws with the educational system that does not accommodate for students with mental health struggles at all. Schools are predominantly pushing students as Ivy League robots and just want to profit. It’s hard to make administrators hear us and care about us. It’s even controversial in my school to directly tell teachers that we are people before we are students. Why are we still making students do two hours of homework after school? Most students also have extracurriculars, and there is no way of persuading admins because any improvement in student mental health might risk lower grades and academic performance. Some educational policies are hard to change, like pushing back school start times and getting rid of standardized testing. I was wondering if anyone had some suggestions or any thoughts about our program. Since many people here are teachers or edu majors, I want to know your take on this. Here are more details:


Phase 1: Communication with teachers, establishing PA Program, doing preliminary research Phase 2: Carrying out and delegating tasks within student body, starting change Phase 3: Get data and speak to school board about making changes AND creating solutions

What is the PA Mental Health Program: we want to be the bridge between the school and the students and essentially mandate actions for better mental health and we can control/speak to both the school and the students

We want to set up support programs and essentially get the school board to think from the students perspective what do you think?



Submitted November 18, 2021 at 07:34PM by agressivewhale https://ift.tt/3HB7vax

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