As Students Return to School, So Does School Violence

“Pandemic-related trauma has made conditions ripe for violence in some schools.”
Nov. 17, 2021

Dr. Christine Mason, one of the principals behind our series on Trauma in Schools, was recently featured in an article of violence in the schools. Such violence can be traced directly to pandemic-related trauma.

From the article:

Christine Mason, an assistant clinical professor at Yale University and the founder of the Center for Educational Improvement, says it will take considerable action by schools to address the pandemic-induced trauma that has made conditions ripe for violence in schools and to start preventing it before it happens.

Because of the lost learning time during the pandemic, many schools are putting pressure on teachers and students to quickly catch up academically, she says. But schools would do better to address social and emotional health services first, because “trauma presents a huge barrier to learning,” according to Mason.