Until the first word in the title of this topic disappears from page one, I’ll be reminded of the kid. He sure didn’t need to kill himself to get his name in the paper.
http://lagrangenews.com/features/community/8181/gardner-newman-middle-school-honor-roll-4
Excerpt from Reuters, Nov. 3
The suicide rate among U.S. middle school students doubled from 2007 to 2014, surpassing for the first time the incidence of youngsters aged 10 to 14 who died in car crashes, a federal report released on Thursday said.
The steady seven-year rise in middle school suicides, from an annual rate of 0.9 to 2.1 per 100,000, came as traffic deaths among the same age group declined to 1.9 per 100,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
The motor vehicle mortality rate reported for 2014, the latest year for which such data was available, marked a 60 percent decline from 1999, when the government began tracking such figures.
In aggregate numbers, 425 young people 10 to 14 years of age took their own lives in 2014, compared with 384 who perished in automobile accidents that year, according to the CDC.
Those figures contrasted sharply with figures from 1999, when the rate of middle school students killed in car crashes, was four times higher than the rate among those who died from suicide that year.
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6543a8.htm?s_cid=mm6543a8_w
wanswheelUntil the first word in the title of this topic disappears from page one, I’ll be reminded of the kid. He sure didn’t need to kill himself to get his name in the paper. http://lagrangenews.com/features/community/8181/gardner-newman-middle-school-honor-roll-4 Excerpt from Reuters, Nov. 3 The suicide rate among U.S. middle school students doubled from 2007 to 2014, surpassing for the first time the incidence of youngsters aged 10 to 14 who died in car crashes, a federal report released on Thursday said. The steady seven-year rise in middle school suicides, from an annual rate of 0.9 to 2.1 per 100,000, came as traffic deaths among the same age group declined to 1.9 per 100,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The motor vehicle mortality rate reported for 2014, the latest year for which such data was available, marked a 60 percent decline from 1999, when the government began tracking such figures. In aggregate numbers, 425 young people 10 to 14 years of age took their own lives in 2014, compared with 384 who perished in automobile accidents that year, according to the CDC. Those figures contrasted sharply with figures from 1999, when the rate of middle school students killed in car crashes, was four times higher than the rate among those who died from suicide that year. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6543a8.htm?s_cid=mm6543a8_w
Today's Social Media make these children more vulnerable to a more pervasive form of bullying and ostrasizing than the childern of prior generations. In the days before electronic social media, one could go home from school and escape this negative social pressure within one's family and trusted friends. Today - you go home and the electronic social media is right there with you - antagonizing you every minute of your waking day.
As we all know from having passed through that age ourselves - kids are cruel.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
BaltACDToday - you go home and the electronic social media is right there with you - antagonizing you every minute of your waking day. As we all know from having passed through that age ourselves - kids are cruel.
Sadly, so true. No safe places.
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