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[–] 13 points 7 hours ago

suicidal you say ?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/15/air-pollution-linked-to-higher-suicide-risk-research-suggests

Air pollution linked to higher suicide risk, international research suggests

Analysis of 29 studies highlights potentially heightened danger from small particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide

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  • [–] 27 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

    Being stuffed in a room with 20 others to sit still for 6 - 12 hours is just inhumane.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

    I don't think it is video games, but you can probably imagine how adults who

    • aren't actually engaging in dialogue with school pupils
    • nor have time to implement or engage in accurate training on how to improve the social skills of their students, what their relationship with video games is, why mental health is down (thanks USA government for overworking the public schools)

    ... you can imagine how those adults do not make the connection that school is incredibly less social, organised and fulfilling than it used to be. Schools are now all focused on going in, studying, sitting tests, going home - they used to be full of activities to build comradery and p r a c t i c a l skills.

    The adults working in education instead decide "kids like video games but don't like school, I didn't have video games when I was at school, so it must be a question of videogames raising their dopamine levels so much that everything in school seems SHIT!"

    But as I've already said, they ignore the fact that school was literally better back then

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago

    I think you're being too harsh on educators. The vast majority of educators I encountered went into the field to support children to create opportunities for them to thrive and grow.

    It is a self-sacrificing profession that requires an unbelievable amount of commitment, and has uncountable factors working against it.

    It is attacked by politicians, it is attacked by the general public, who feel they are experts on the profession because they went to school... It is attacked at the state level, and at the district level.

    Teachers are fighting against turning kids into data points for college and career readiness, which view kids as cogs in the economic wheel, and not humans that have a civic duty to grow into their fullest selves.

    You can hate on education all you like, but educators are the ones on the ground trying their best to make it something worthwhile.

    There are just a lot of factors that are in play that prevent teachers from being able to teach and be teachers first and foremost.

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