Hey Viewers, I could use your help on a few things. I want to add anything to my post of 100 thing a teen could do besides suicide just comment. I already have 100 but more would be great. Next if you will take my poll and give me an idea of another poll i could put up it would help my blog loads. (well what do you know the follow button is right there by my poll, you can just go ahead and follow my blog while your reading.) (Their is also a follow button that should be at the top left side of your screen if you are logged into your own blog) thanks for all of your help and I'm here for all of my viewers. if you have any questions just ask and i will get back to you with an answer ASAP.
Love, Myesha Edwards

Thursday, March 17, 2011

School Suicides

 Teen Suicide: The Silent Epidemic


 "Where it used to be your grandfather, now it's your son," said Tom Simon, a suicide researcher at the CDC.       
   
 "Teen suicide" By Myesha Edwards. The rate of suicide in adults may have declined, but in teens the rates are three times their original number due to a number of factors. (The numbers have changed form 3.6/100,000 to 11.1/100,000 according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.) To the one teenager to go through with suicide, 100 more will try; a federally funded Youth Risk Survey found that one out of every thirteen high school students will attempt suicide, that is two out an average twenty six student class.what we seeing is that we are not getting anywhere good with the rates of suicide, we are higher than ever only now in teens--as Tom Simon stated.


Portner, Jessica. Teen Suicide: The Silent Epidemic. 12 April 2000. 15 March 2011 <http://sks.sirs.com.wf2dnvr6.webfeat.org/cgi-bin/hst-article-display?id=SSC1027-0-9309&artno=0000116560&type=ART&shfilter=U&key=&title=Teen%20Suicide%3A%20The%20Silent%20Epidemic%2D%2DPart%201&res=Y&ren=Y&gov=Y&lnk=N&ic=N>.
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