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> Brizendine chimed in to commiserate with others about the growing criticism they’ve faced over closed schools, suggesting parents really want schools to reope

> Brizendine chimed in to commiserate with others about the growing criticism they’ve faced over closed schools, suggesting parents really want schools to reopen so they get their babysitters back. I grew up in a situation where if I didn’t have school, I may not be alive today. I strongly recommend people learn about ACES[1] study and the long term health impact of childhood trauma (of which school away from home is one mitigating remedy). 1 - https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/index.html

sp332 6y ago
Ok but there's a global pandemic on. So the upside exists, but how many people's lives are we willing to endanger for it?
- softwaredoug 6y ago
  > The researchers found that on average, patients with six or more traumatic experiences as children died nearly 20 years earlier than those without any experience I think people treat these as “soft” purely psychological issues. But childhood trauma physically changes your development and longer term physical health. Further these issues impact a lot of the population. From the original Kaiser study: > more than one in five reported three or more ACEs Citations: https://www.medpagetoday.org/primarycare/domesticviolence/16318?vpass=1 https://www.medpagetoday.org/primarycare/domesticviolence/16... https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/about.html https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/about.html https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33413909-the-deepest-well https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33413909-the-deepest-wel...
  - voisin 6y ago
    Dr. Gabor Mate has some good info on childhood trauma worth looking into.
  - sp332 6y ago
    Yes and schoolchildren who die of Covid lose a lot more years than that. Even most teachers or students' parents would be losing more than that each. Keeping schools closed may cost lives, but I don't see how opening schools in a pandemic is going to kill fewer people?

sp332 6y ago

Ok but there's a global pandemic on. So the upside exists, but how many people's lives are we willing to endanger for it?

softwaredoug 6y ago
> The researchers found that on average, patients with six or more traumatic experiences as children died nearly 20 years earlier than those without any experience I think people treat these as “soft” purely psychological issues. But childhood trauma physically changes your development and longer term physical health. Further these issues impact a lot of the population. From the original Kaiser study: > more than one in five reported three or more ACEs Citations: https://www.medpagetoday.org/primarycare/domesticviolence/16318?vpass=1 https://www.medpagetoday.org/primarycare/domesticviolence/16... https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/about.html https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/about.html https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33413909-the-deepest-well https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33413909-the-deepest-wel...
- voisin 6y ago
  Dr. Gabor Mate has some good info on childhood trauma worth looking into.
- sp332 6y ago
  Yes and schoolchildren who die of Covid lose a lot more years than that. Even most teachers or students' parents would be losing more than that each. Keeping schools closed may cost lives, but I don't see how opening schools in a pandemic is going to kill fewer people?