US schools sue Meta, Google and friends over 'youth mental health crisis'
Like school districts across the country, Seattle Public Schools and its school-based clinics are one of the primary mental-health services providers for children in the community. But the district's counselors, social workers, psychologists, and nurses are stretched too thin, and they need more financial resources to meet the growing demand for their services, the lawsuit says.
"Plaintiff needs a comprehensive, long-term plan and funding to drive a sustained reduction in the record rates of anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, and other tragic indices of the mental health crisis its youth are experiencing at Defendants' hands," it reads. The"excessive" and"habitual use" of the tech firms' social media platforms constitute a"public nuisance affecting Seattle Public Schools" and, as such, the lawsuit seeks to abate the public nuisance and get Meta, Google, and friends to fund educational and treatment for the"problematic use of social media" among kids and teens.
"It has become increasingly clear that many children are burdened by mental health challenges," Superintendent Brent Jones said in a statement ["Our students — and young people everywhere — face unprecedented, learning and life struggles that are amplified by the negative impacts of increased screen time, unfiltered content, and potentially addictive properties of social media," he continued.
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