Thomas Murphy
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And that's the war that we're in.
So people think that when I say that, it sounds a little sensational.
But we're losing our young people at a rate that planet Earth has never seen before.
And what are we doing about it?
It's a clip.
It's a newsflash.
And then we move on.
3,041 high scores attempt every day.
3,400.
3,041 high scores attempt every day.
What a conversation that is.
Malcolm Gladwell talks about this Swiss cheese effect in his great book, Outliers, talks about the holes having to line up.
It's never one thing.
It's not bullying.
I mean, we know that there's a direct correlation between depression and suicide.
But sometimes it takes a bunch of things for a young person to make that decision.
You might be a kid who's sleeping on his dad's girlfriend's trailer couch, the two middle school girls
that are in that trail are making life hell for you.
Your dad says to you when you're 18, you're out of here, pal.
You bring a knife to school, and the school catches you and suspends you and throws you out of school.