The Washington Post (10/21, Wan) reports, “In the face of rising rates of depression, anxiety and suicide among young people, some states and school systems have” now begun “allowing students to take mental sick days off from school.” For example, in 2018 “Utah changed its definition of valid excuses for absences to include mental health issues,” and this past summer, “Oregon enacted a law – driven by a group of high school student activists – that allows students to take days off for mental health.” Meanwhile, “students in other states, including Colorado, Florida and Washington, are attempting to get similar laws passed.”
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— “Schools now letting students stay home sick for mental-health days, “William Wan, The Washington Post, October 21, 2019