Commentary: When students are not OK, neither are teachers

Exacerbated by the pandemic, the current mental health crisis is well documented, and it’s felt in homes and classrooms here in Illinois and nationwide:
 
Forty-two percent of Illinois high schoolers reported feeling sad or hopeless almost every day for two or more weeks in a row, according to the Youth Risk Behavior Survey of 2021; nearly half of surveyed Illinois students reported it’s hard or very hard to manage their emotions; and Hispanic and multiracial students reported lower well-being than their white peers, according to the American Institutes for Research this year.

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