Local high schools address student mental health challenges

Local high schools address student mental health challenges

Students with Griff the therapy dog. (Provided) High school students in particular face unprecedented challenges these days.  The desire to get into a top-flight college and generally trying to fit in have always been there, of course, but now internal pressures have been exacerbated by technology, particularly social media.  Though we’re years since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, all of today’s high schoolers were in middle or grammar scho…

Local high schools address student mental health challenges  - Riverside-Brookfield Landmark

Students with Griff the therapy dog. (Provided) High school students in particular face unprecedented challenges these days.  The desire to get into a top-flight college and generally trying to fit in have always been there, of course, but now internal pressures have been exacerbated by technology, particularly social media.  Though we’re years since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, all of today’s high schoolers were in middle or grammar scho…