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The Current State of Wellness at Schools: Crisis
The COVID-19 Pandemic severely disrupted educational activities.
2021 statistics
Students Teachers Administrators
13.84% 30% 30%
of youth (age 12-17) report suffering from is considering leaving teaching or retiring turned over during the 2021 compared
at least one major depressive episode in early. Being spread thin with technology to 20% in pre-pandemic. This represents
the past year. challenges and various modes of teaching, a 50% increase of turn over rate among
This number is increased by 206,000 from declining student engagement, fear of school leadership.
2020 dataset. contracting COVID, and balancing their
own caretaking responsibilities have made
teaching even harder. Increased workloads
9.7%
and declining job satisfaction.
of youth (or over 2.3 million youth) cope
with severe major depression. 84%
This number is increased by 126,000 from
2020 dataset. (https://mhanational.org/ of teachers and administrators indicate
issues/2021/mental-health-america-youth- teacher morale is lower than it was prior to
data) pre-pandemic;
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