{"id":44,"date":"2009-04-28T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/cryforhelp\/?p=44"},"modified":"2018-09-10T11:02:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T15:02:13","slug":"the-film-case-study-on-hamilton-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/cryforhelp\/resources\/the-film-case-study-on-hamilton-high\/44\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study on Hamilton High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to executive producer Edie Magnus&#8217; experience studying Hamilton High&#8217;s initiatives in addressing the emotional problems with their students or read about it below.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-44-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/cryforhelp\/files\/2009\/04\/Untitled.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/cryforhelp\/files\/2009\/04\/Untitled.mp3\">https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/cryforhelp\/files\/2009\/04\/Untitled.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionRight\">\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-45\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/cryforhelp\/files\/2009\/04\/hamilton-high.jpg\" alt=\"Hamilton High\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/>Hamilton High<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Remember when the No Child Left Behind Act became law? President Bush signed it in a ceremony at Hamilton High school \u2013 which that day stood for schools everywhere in the mission to bolster academic standards across the country. Well, 5 years later Hamilton High stood for what\u2019s happening in many of the nation\u2019s schools in another, far more disturbing way: there were four student suicides there within months of one another. When i first spoke with the principal he was agonizing over the question of why it had happened and what they had missed. All four teenagers had died by hanging.\u00a0 No Child Left Behind as principal Dennis Malone would tell us later, may have required schools to increase test scores or attendance, but there wasn\u2019t one indicator to show that a school had increased its attention to students with emotional problems.<\/p>\n<p>So Hamilton High took it upon themselves to do a better job in this area \u2013 and in <a href=\"\/wnet\/cryforhelp\/episodes\/the-film\/watch-the-documentary\/1\/\">our documentary <em>Cry for Help<\/em><\/a> you will see what they put together and you can judge for yourselves how they do. For teachers and counselors and administrators it\u2019s all extra time and extra work, but they all told us it had to be done. School is where all the kids are \u2013 for most of their days, anyway.\u00a0 And in today\u2019s world, where both parents often work, the folks running the schools are best positioned to reach the teenagers at risk who come through their doors everyday.<\/p>\n<p>See what you think of what they call Character Day:\u00a0 Hamilton High actually suspended classes for a day to spend time with students studying their emotional well being.\u00a0 And there\u2019s a crisis team \u2013 which is put to the test.\u00a0 There are many different initiatives being launched across the country now \u2013 often in the wake of tragedy \u2013 to get at the problem of adolescent mental illness and feelings of suicide.\u00a0 Hamilton High\u2019s is just one of them.\u00a0 What you will see represents a start.\u00a0 With 28 teenagers taking their own lives every week in this country, it\u2019s a start along a path from which schools are finding they can\u2019t turn away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to executive producer Edie Magnus&#8217; experience studying Hamilton High&#8217;s initiatives in addressing the emotional problems with their students or read about it below. &nbsp; Hamilton High Remember when the No Child Left Behind Act became law? 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