More than 5,000 incidents of suicidal behavior were reported in Los Angeles Unified in the last school year, an exponential jump from the 255 reported in 2010-2011 when the district, California’s largest, began tracking such incidents.
The cases were cited in the district’s latest Incident System Tracking Accountability Report, or iStar, an annual review of troubling incidents that occurred in district schools during the academic year. The list includes such things as injuries, accidents, fighting and inappropriate sexual behavior. The suicidal behavior rate, which has increased annually, tracks with rising episodes reported of depression among young people but also an expanding tool kit for dealing with it.
[For more of this story, written by Michael Janofsky, go to https://edsource.org/2016/la-u...to-address-it/572539]
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