High schools in Minnesota are in a difficult spot when it comes to the suicide of students. As we’ve written many times, they’re concerned that if they acknowledge that students kill themselves, it will lead other students to take their own lives, too. But if they don’t say anything, they mute a very real health threat to our children.

The effect on the families of the students is painful; they often made to feel as if their children never existed if their deaths cannot be noted. Read more