@Minholkin ok hold on.

Good Morning #COSO
Today will be the last of my postings on the topic of children and schools. I first want to say thank you to all for the engagements I have received and I hope that the information has been substantive, informative and perhaps eye opening.

This last post is personally hard for me, and hit a nerve, but it needs attention. The article I am linking below is important. Let me know if you read it for any reason and I will post it word for word

https://www.abqjournal.com/1472694/shadow-deaths-of-the-virus.html

@_Ms_J :) I do what I can.

@_Ms_J I will suggest a dose of what I call "cool water" to help with the stress..

it works for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An4uDegHB8s

@_Ms_J I boosted this because it ties in with the last post I will be doing on these topics. You summed it up in one line.

"For some, coming to school is the only safe space."

This could be used to describe not only a child's physical well being, but emotional and mental as well.

@_Ms_J The burden should have never fallen on the schools, decades ago these issues were not prevalent as they are today. Whether it be single parents, both parents working, poverty, man I could go on, but because school for the most part is the one constant in a childs life, it was an inevitable shift of the burden. This is what we now face.

@_Ms_J did you find solutions that are workable?

@_Ms_J It started with me doing a couple polls

@_Ms_J We do agree. I've posted for the last 12 days or so on the topic of the school shutdowns, and the issues surrounding it. all the posts can be found on my TL. from lack of broadband access for remote learning, single parents not being able to be home for kids to remote learn, school meal programs being the only meals for some kids, and this current topic.

@Minholkin Thank you and I appreciate it more than you know.

@_Ms_J I completely agree.

@_Ms_J thats the point I'm trying to make. it is an extreme byproduct of the quarantines and shutdowns and schools moving towards remote learning.

@_Ms_J I understand, and didn't mean to come off flipant, I'm aware of the requirements to report, and the importance of counselors and specialists as well as children not disclosing. however, it is a very real issue right now for children of abuse not being in school. that reporting from teachers, counselors etc isn't happening. it is a breakdown in the system.

@_Ms_J counseling and literacy intervention is not the problem when it comes to child abuse and neglect reports dropping significantly. The problem is there is no one between the child and abuser to report the abuse right now. That is a huge breakdown.

One paragraph that sums up the last 3 posts is this.

"The steep decline could be a sign that an unseen epidemic of abuse is spreading behind locked doors, according to the police, prosecutors and child protection officials. As the virus has shuttered the city, the fragile system of safeguards designed to protect children has fallen apart"

My take:

This is perhaps the darkest consequence of the shutdowns.. however, there is one last one to be talked about but I'll do that later.

Child abuse reporting across the country.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/04/30/child-abuse-reports-coronavirus/

Cases of child abuse are also showing more severity

Out of Pennsylvania

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/13/hospitals-seeing-more-severe-child-abuse-injuries-during-coronavirus/3116395001/

If I was tell you that Reports of child abuse have dropped between 40 and 50 percent, would you think"thats great. Abuse is going down"

Out of New York City..

Teachers are normally the leading reporters of suspected abuse, calling for help when they notice bruises or signs of hunger or mistreatment at home. Now, teachers get a glimpse of their students only in a virtual classroom, if they see them at all.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc-child-abuse.html

Good Morning #COSO I'm wanted to say thank you to all who have been reading, engaging and debating the very important issues regarding kids and schools. I have all the posts pinned on my profile so everyone can find them easier. Today I'm post about the very real consequences of the shutdowns. I am going to apologize in advance regarding the topic for today, however, I am not placing content warnings on any of it. Just an FYI. The first posts will drop in about an hour. grab your coffee.