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Dylan Buckner was an honor student and the star quarterback at Glenbrook North High School in the Chicago suburb of Northbrook. He had friends, good grades and a promising future, but his father believes remote learning made his depression worse.
The parents of three children who died of suicide during the pandemic spoke out Friday on "The Story" about the victims of the oft-unnoticed mental health crisis that has accompanied the contagion and societal restrictions.
After Son Takes His Own Life, Father Warns Against Extended Pandemic Lockdowns NORTHBROOK, Ill.—Dylan Buckner’s bedroom looks like a typical teenager’s room, filled with sports trophies and plastered with posters of football stars. Chris Buckner, Dylan’s father, points to photos and toys of cheetahs, saying Dylan liked the animals because of their speed. He gestures to a large model of a fish, a life-sized replica of the first one he caught with Dylan. Almost everything in the room has been left untouched since Dylan’s death three months ago—an attempt by his parents to preserve h...
The Jan. 7 death by suicide of Glenbrook North High School student Dylan Buckner is just one example of why parents are concerned. Buckner’s father in a Tribune interview said his son’s isolation and lack of school activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to his struggles. “I would argue, and I believe strongly, that Dylan’s death is not going to show up in COVID statistics, and yet absolutely it’s a COVID death,” Chris Buckner said. Las Vegas-area school officials moved quickly late last year to get schools reopened after noticing a spike in suicides and an uptick in a...
Editorial: Across the country, parents are demanding that schools reopen — high schools too. Parents are frustrated with slow bureaucracy over school reopening plans, obstinate teachers unions, pick-and-choose “science” to justify closed buildings.