Human feces covered San Francisco sues schools, citing high number of suicidal students

https://nypost.com/2021/02/12/san-francisco-sues-schools-cites-high-of-
suicidal-students/

SAN FRANCISCO — The number of suicidal children in San Francisco has hit a 
record high and health experts say it is clear that keeping public schools 
closed “is catalyzing a mental health crisis among school-aged children,” 
according to a lawsuit the city filed Thursday to push its school district 
to reopen classrooms.

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced last week he was 
taking the dramatic step of suing the city’s own school district, which 
has kept its classrooms closed nearly a year. In the motion filed Thursday 
in San Francisco Superior Court, Herrera included alarming testimony from 
hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area, doctors and parents on the 
emotional and mental harms of extended distance learning.

One mother, Allison Arieff, said she had recently found her 15-year-old 
daughter “curled up in a fetal position, crying, next to her laptop at 11 
am” Arieff said her daughter often cries in the middle of the day out of 
frustration and “is losing faith not just in SFUSD but in the world.”

Another mother, Lindsay Sink, has seen a “major regression” in her 7-year-
old son who has “uncontrollable meltdowns that turn (the) whole house 
upside down.” Sink’s 10-year-old daughter is experiencing “depression and 
anger” and she fears her daughter’s “mental health will continue to 
suffer” until in-person learning resumes.

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital has seen a 66 percent increase in the 
number of suicidal children in the emergency room and a 75 percent 
increase in youth who required hospitalization for mental health services, 
the lawsuit said, quoting pediatricians, child psychiatrists and emergency 
room doctors.

Last month, UCSF Children’s Emergency Department at Mission Bay reported 
record high numbers of suicidal children seen and treated, according to 
the legal filing which did not provide detailed numbers of cases and 
hospital visits. It also quoted doctors citing an increase in anxiety, 
depression and eating disorders among children, consistent with national 
data.

“The medical evidence is clear that keeping public schools closed is 
catalyzing a mental health crisis among school-aged children in San 
Francisco,” Dr. Jeanne Noble, director of COVID Response for the UCSF 
Emergency Department.

San Francisco’s 52,000 public school students have been out of classes 
since March. Public health officials have allowed city schools to reopen 
since September but the district and teachers unions have not been able to 
finalize a deal on reopening classrooms.

“We wholeheartedly agree that students are better served with in-person 
learning,” the school district’s spokeswoman, Laura Dudnick, said 
Thursday. “Bringing students back to school in a large public school 
district is very complex and requires partnership.”

“We are eager for the city to make vaccines available to our staff,” 
Dudnick said.

The lawsuit is the first of its kind in California and possibly the 
country, as school systems come under increasing pressure from parents and 
politicians to end virtual learning. It has prompted discussion in other 
cities including Los Angeles, where a city councilman is urging similar 
legal action to force schools open.

The lawsuit highlights the growing tension and infighting nationwide 
between politicians who insist it is safe to return to schools with proper 
safety precautions and teachers who are on the front lines and have not 
been able to get vaccinated yet.

Those in favor of reopening classrooms cite scientific data, including 
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, showing schools have 
reopened safely if proper safety precautions are in place such as masks, 
physical distancing and intensive cleaning.

The lawsuit notes that 114 of San Francisco’s private, parochial and 
charter schools have reopened to 15,831 students and some 2,400 staff. 
Those schools have had fewer than five cases of suspected in-person 
transmission, it says.

Thursday’s motion expands upon previous allegations that school officials 
have failed to create a specific plan for reopening, as required by state 
law.

“Distance learning is a form of instruction; it is not school,” the 
lawsuit says, arguing that a child’s education goes beyond academic 
subjects and extends to a wide variety of emotional, social and 
developmental skills that can only be learned in-person. Keeping kids out 
of schools “constitutes a substantial violation of their constitutional 
rights.”





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