TEACHERS reporting primary school children with eating disorders backed a windfall social media tax to fund for their spiralling mental health service needs today.A survey of 9,793 National Education Union (NEU) teacher members found 45 per cent of primary school teachers are seeing students with eating disorders at least “occasionally.”The figure rises to 78 per cent in secondaries, where 68 per cent of teachers also “regularly” see absenteeism due to student mental ill-health, according findings released at the union’s annual conference.

TEACHERS reporting primary school children with eating disorders backed a windfall social media tax to fund for their spiralling mental health service needs today.

A survey of 9,793 National Education Union (NEU) teacher members found 45 per cent of primary school teachers are seeing students with eating disorders at least “occasionally.”

The figure rises to 78 per cent in secondaries, where 68 per cent of teachers also “regularly” see absenteeism due to student mental ill-health, according findings released at the union’s annual conference.

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  • Kairos@lemmy.today
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    11 hours ago

    Reported by non medical professionals using a vague definition?

    Also, did they fuck up “nearly half of students reported to have” and “nearly half of teachers report”?