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 crumbled.
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…
