We're used to thinking of the ways that school solves problems.
It's a place to learn.
Schools provide lunch, access to teachers and staff who keep an eye out for signs of distress.
And for kids with troubled home lives, school is an escape.
But over the past few years,
there's been a steady flow of new information complicating the uncomplicated idea that school is.
Obviously good for kids.
Alongside all these benefits are some pretty serious costs.
For instance,
there's research showing suicides spike during the school year and also
that some kids fared better during remote schooling.
This episode is about whether school can create problems even as it solves others.
My name's Jerusalem Dempsis.
I'm a staff writer here at the Atlantic.
And this is good on paper.
I a policy show that questions what we really know about popular narratives.
What time of year do you think kids commit the most crimes?
I'll give you a second to think.
Summer Winter Before I came across the research in today's episode, I had a.
Vague sense that kids, like adults, got.