enforce Minnesota schools to have mandatory mental health days.

 

The purpose of this bill is to help with our youth’s mental health. This would help with mental health, stress, anxiety

and much more. Instead of people having to go to school during an existential crisis, Anxiety attack, or severe

depression episode, they can stay home and or go to therapy to help with it instead of worsening it.

 

 

This bill is necessary because many youth experience many different mental health issues. Many youth may have depression

that makes it hard to get up in the morning. Many youth have suicidal thoughts and school doesnt make it any better.

School can be so stressful. Tests and homeworks determine your future, giving pressure on losing sleep on studying and

doing assignments. School is no longer about the learning, it's more about the grade you get. Even if you’re a genius,

if you don’t have a 4.0 you wont get into an ivy league school. That is one of the many reasons why school is so

stressful on students. If we gave students mental health days, some of the stress would be relieved. If people are

struggling with depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, or self-harm, they shouldn’t have to make that worse by getting

up at 7 in the morning and going to school and putting more on their workload, stress, and it can overwhelm many people,

especially our youth. This bill will give students 3 mental health days before they get a therapist, counselor,

psychiatrist, psychologist, or doctor's notice that they may be allowed more.

 

 

Mental Health day: If a student is facing issues with their mental health, they will receive an option to miss school to

work on their mental health.

Self-harm: deliberate nonsuicidal injury to one’s own body, such as cutting or burning the skin, or pulling out hair, in

a physical manifestation of emotional distress.

Suicidal thoughts: The preoccupation with, or the contemplation or planning of, ending one's own life.

Depression: a common and serious mental health condition characterized by persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness,

and loss of interest in activities that were once pleasurable. It can also affect thoughts, behavior, and physical

health.

Anxiety: An emotion characterized by apprehension and somatic symptoms of tension in which an individual anticipates

impending danger, catastrophe, or misfortune.

 

 

There is no funding required.

 

 

If a school decides to deny a child facing mental health issues, the Minnesota department of education may pull half of

the funds, until the law is obeyed. If continued denying this law, they may face federal charges and pull all funding

from that school until the issue is resolved.

 

This bill will be effective 01/11/2027.