{"id":17438,"date":"2016-09-03T12:02:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T17:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=17438"},"modified":"2016-09-07T07:54:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T12:54:21","slug":"an-email-i-just-sent-with-the-subject-heading-a-discussion-of-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=17438","title":{"rendered":"An email I just sent with the subject heading: &#8220;A discussion of suicide&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE that I have corrected this post <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=17467\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>********<\/p>\n<p>I keep thinking about <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=16994\">a truncated discussion<\/a> we had on suicide after one of our Board meetings last spring. You joined it and dogmatically insisted that schools don&#8217;t cause it.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly I neither agree or disagree with you. Like Alanna you had a personal family experience that has made you think long and hard about the subject.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a link to a thoughtful NPR story about suicide myths that is instructive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/ed\/2016\/09\/02\/478835539\/6-myths-about-suicide-that-every-educator-and-parent-should-know\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/ed\/2016\/09\/02\/478835539\/6-myths-about-suicide-that-every-educator-and-parent-should-know<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 20 years ago 709 experienced 5 suicides in a period of a couple of months that was described as a spate of copycatting. Today one family is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/news\/4077165-parent-student-who-died-suicide-files-lawsuit-against-duluth-school-district\">preparing a lawsuit<\/a> against us for their child&#8217;s suicide. I am not a fan of certitude and dogma. The world is a complicated place and I recommend this NPR story as a good place for us to begin a discussion about this sensitive subject.<\/p>\n<p>All the best.<\/p>\n<p>Harry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>PS. This is <a href=\"http:\/\/infoweb.newsbank.com\/resources\/doc\/nb\/news\/0EB594877B11FCED?p=NewsBank\">not a new issue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PPS The five student suicides represented several area schools not just ISD 709. Our current Education Reporter Jana Hollingsworth wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/infoweb.newsbank.com\/resources\/doc\/nb\/news\/0FDAFC5A25B3FEB6?p=NewsBank\">the story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE that I have corrected this post here. ******** I keep thinking about a truncated discussion we had on suicide after one of our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-duluth-schools","category-education","category-meaning-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17470,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17438\/revisions\/17470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}