Middle School Task Force News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

100 Years Ago

When I retired from leading River School in 2014, later that school year there were two teen suicides in NVUSD in the space of eight days, an 8th-grade boy and a 10th grader. Those deaths shook me and, with Jeni Olsen, we started Village Napa, an advocacy group, to support the mental, social, and emotional well-being of young people. In the research I’ve done since then, I’ve discovered that suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents, among college students, and that 50% of millennials and 75% of Gen Zers have left their jobs due to mental health reasons.

Reply The Napa Valley Unified School District is one of fewer than 100 school districts with K-12 campuses open for hybrid in-person instruction while remaining committed to distance learning. (Shutterstock) NAPA VALLEY, CA — While Napa Valley Unified School District students starting attending in-person classes in cohorts two days a week when the district moved to Phase Two of its four-phase reopening plan in late October, the district does not have a firm start date for Phase Three. The third phase involves a hybrid of distance learning at home and in-person learning five days a week in m...