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Before they dove into discussions about technology updates and special education, administrators and principals in the Coeur d’Alene School District began a Wednesday morning management retreat with training 
in suicide-prevention techniques. The session was a grim reminder of four suicides by district students within the past 15 months. Two were by juniors at Lake City High School who died within about three weeks of each other. Another, last June, was by a middle school student. The fourth, this past June, was by a student who had recently withdrawn from a district middle school. But the practice session also was an indicator of the district’s resolve to prevent more deaths and ensure the mental health of its students/Alison Boggs, SR. More here. (SR photo/Jesse Tinsley: Deanne Clifford, left, principal of Lake City High School, goes through a role-playing exercise with Assistant Principal Tom Mollgaard)
Question: Is preventing suicides a proper part of the Idaho education mandate?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Phaedrus on August 29 at 3:51 p.m.
NO! Why are we coddling these people and using taxpayer money to do it? School is only to teach the 3 R’s, nothing more. And only through the 6th grade, then these parasites are on their own!
mrd on August 29 at 11:24 p.m.
Probably not according to our idiot legislators, but you bet it is. You would think that one legislator who experienced a suicide in their family would be more open minded to providing schools and kids what they need to survive.