Maybe Your Teen Doesn’t Need a Mental-Health Day Letting kids stay home from school can be really bad for them, actually.

https://www.thecut.com/article/the-dangerous-glorification-of-mental-health-days.html

"Days off from school in the name of mental health have grown in popularity in the wake of the pandemic and the U.S. surgeon general’s and American Academy of Pediatrics’ declarations that the United States is in a youth mental-health “national emergency.” "

"The problem, they say, is that in many common situations they see, missing school can be counterproductive for kids’ mental health and become a slippery slope, worsening the problems these days are trying to address. And chronic school absenteeism has almost doubled in 40 states since the pandemic, with test scores in math and reading plummeting, too."