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On the recordMarch 30, 2022
Not just lower test scores for our children, but also increases in depression rates, increases in suicide rates, increases in drug and alcohol addiction rates, increases in domestic violence in the home.
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Ben Cline
Republican · Virginia

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Cline links school closures to negative mental health and social outcomes for children.

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