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(Reuters) â As Covid-19 upended education during the past year, Pennsylvania middle school teacher Jennifer Lundberg often began her English lessons gauging the mental wellbeing of her students.
Sometimes, she would turn the lights off and dedicate a few minutes of in-person class to walking the kids through exercises that asked them to identify stressors they were experiencing.
With her own teenage daughter suffering from bouts of depression and anxiety brought on by the pandemic, the veteran teacher saw evidence all around her of the urgent need for mental health support for young people. They are struggling in a way that I feel like a lot of times they don t even have words for, Lundberg said. I ve had students who have left in the middle of the day to go to the ER to get evaluated.