While we’re on the topic of COVID, trauma, and schools…
Researchers found a major source of pandemic-related trauma for college students was returning to in-person schooling before it was safe. It was an institutional betrayal.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8528300/
Researchers found a major source of pandemic-related trauma for college students was returning to in-person schooling before it was safe. It was an institutional betrayal.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8528300/
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I feel betrayed more than anything else.
We're all in this together?
Not
Even
Close.
Am I off on this?
A lot of schools were pretty transparent about bringing students back to campus because they needed money from student housing.
If true, kneecapping public education, especially universities, is good for them.
But in this case, we’re talking about elite education and I suppose that’s a different thing.
Lisa Wade has a book coming out about Tulane’s return to campus for the 2020-2021 school year. She really gets into the disproportionate toll on staff.
We came back long enough to get a bunch of people sick and close again in a panic.
A lot of students didn’t feel safe to be learning in person. And probably didn’t learn well in person—because trauma can hugely interfere in education.
Several colleagues and me had the same betrayal with return to office.
Students in the throes of trauma have lower GPAs and a higher risk of dropping out. They’re also less likely to graduate from competitive majors like STEM.
But the institutional betrayal literature should give all of us doubts about that. It may be doubling down on the problem!
Institutional betrayal IS trauma. It’s associated with higher risk of anxiety, depression, PTSD, sleep difficulties, and suicidal ideation.
We can’t disregard people’s safety without hurting them—even if they were spared from physical harm.
https://bsky.app/profile/nbedera.bsky.social/post/3lo4l3q55jc2y
What’s worse are the journalists picking it up and running with it.
I’m sorry you have so much firsthand experience.
I’m sorry you understand it so well from firsthand experience. You deserved support. And protection.
Kid is one of a handful of people still masking at their school and they regularly express feelings of disappointment and betrayal that people they like and want to trust don’t bother with even basic mitigation anymore