High school pep rallies turn into student-organized memorials for fallen classmates. A 2016 study of Chicago public school students found that violent crimes negatively affected students’ standardized test scores. At Ballou High, a high school in Southeast Washington that has lost multiple students to gun violence in recent years, a teacher said that multiple students have lost multiple relatives to the virus. “We definitely need more mental health workers, but you start to get diminished returns after a certain point,” said Nathan Luecking, a social worker at Anacostia High. She was a former Anacostia High student, a fixture in the neighborhood who many current students knew, Luecking said.

Source: Washington Post August 24, 2020 11:06 UTC