To Prevent Loneliness, Start in the Classroom [theatlantic.com]

Alicia Doktor 10/22/184:00 AM

Starting in September of 2020, schoolchildren across the United Kingdom will learn from their teachers how to fend off loneliness.

In January, British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed the first “minister of loneliness.” This week, her administration released an 84-page plan detailing the actions it will take to curb loneliness across the country, including measures that will be enacted in schools. Starting in primary school, students will have mandatory lessons in “relationships education,” and such lessons will also be incorporated into sex-ed classes in high school.

[For more on this story by ASHLEY FETTERS, go to https://www.theatlantic.com/ed...tion-schools/573280/]

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Laura Haynes CollectorMember

We have got to connect the dots with the mistaken things we are doing to babies in early childhood. Kids should not arrive at school primed for loneliness. We cannot rely on schools to provide normal foundational attachment experiences. Yes, it's great to have remedial help for kids who are suffering but unless we get parents, and mentor them to parent in attached ways, it will just be a bandaid.

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