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Notably from the graphic, not having school early in lockdown was great! Lower suicides.

Once Hybrid/Remote started, suicides worse, implying worse than baseline. But slightly within error bars for most.

So order of good > bad: No School > In-Person school > Hybrid

I don't have kids or anything more than an academic interest, but from what I gathered, "hybrid/remote" involved the most brain-dead approach to learning environments possible. It seems/seemed like they just looked at the most popular videoconferencing options and used them as designed. From what I read, that did not provide a very good classroom simulation, and classroom simulations was the only option sought.

It was awful for our kids in middle / high school. 6 hours a day of zoom meetings with cameras required to be on at all times was exactly as bad in every way as you can imagine.

I have been really surprised that there hasn't been any apparent innovation in educational technologies and classroom concepts.

And even outside of the specific school scheme, looking at overall rates of child suicide in the US and Canada, the rates aren't out of variance from historical trends vs during covid years.

(see pg 25 for the graphs on the Urgency of Equity packet).

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