Mental Health Should Be a Central Focus of Our School Curriculum

i've long thought that mental health should be a central focus of our school curriculum. What other skills are more central to leading a good life than understanding one's own emotions or building healthy relationships? Do you ever take on why we don't devote a big chunk of the schoolday to teaching kids these cantoskills? Because we're frightened. It's the same way prejudice comes in, or homophobia does this. There's so many things that frighten us that we'd rather adjust the make up of the mask and go on. And so we basically fail ourselves and fail our children in an important way.