Purely anecdotal, but by virtue of having a spouse in the teaching profession, I speak to a lot of teachers. It seems (to me) that since the return to school, some teachers are experiencing problems on a new level. Drugs (like, the good ones) ending up in middle schools, fights everywhere (and happening in class), student-on-teacher assaults... my wife had lunch with a colleague yesterday that reported an actual parent/student fist fight that happened in her school this year (grade 8).
There is a theory that stress in early life is a massive contributor to all sorts of ailments, a big one being ADHD. It will be interesting to see rates of that (which are already rising like crazy) as the kids conceived and born in early covid start hitting kindergarten in the next 1-3 years. It doesn't matter what side of the great battle you were on, stress was a huge component of the last 3 years.
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