Schools and Mental Health

When it comes to mental health teachers both understand and don't understand as their is no clear cut answer. A teacher that is aware of mental health tends to be more kind towards those suffering from it allowing breaks for those who are overwhelmed or longer deadlines for those who need it. Unfortunately there are teachers who do not understand mental health those who are stuck in the old age, these teachers believe that if you just work hard enough or "Get an early start" everything will be okay and that you just have to suck it up and deal with it. This leads into the second part of the arguement, is it the teachers or is it the system? Obviously depending on the teacher there are ways to bend the system giving an advantage to a student who is suffering from mental health as stated earlier, however the system itself is by no means geared towards helping the individual. Schools push the idea of "the counslers are here for you" "were here to help" etc, however when a student seeks these outlets they are told to simply get ahead on studies or just to drop the class, when instead the system should be catering to these students on an individual level allowing for breaks, allowing for retakes on tests. School at the moment is a learn everything spit it out pass or fail a test and repeat. Which leads us to our third part of this arguement, Is it the system or is it how the real world unfortunately is. The teachers who dont help students with mental health those who say to "get an early start" those who are stuck in the old ways, will say that in life deadlines are final and that you cannot afford to struggle in life you simply have to "deal with it". This begs the question are they correct? Obviously theyre wrong in whether it is moral or not, mental health should always be a priority and come first. However they may be correct in the way that this is how life is at the moment, mental health is simply not forgiven by most jobs. If you have a job youre allowed to take breaks but that will remove amounts you are payed, and if you take too many breaks youre liable to get fired when mental health is something that cannot be controlled. The real world itself simply does not have the resources to cater to mental health with suicide, depression, and other mental health issues on the rise there doesnt seem to be anything to counter it. Our government at the moment is fighting over border crises and whether people can play sports or not. Rather then dealing with the issue at hand that is mental health. Until the way the government looks at mental health is changed there will be no definite answer to this question it will all come to how the individual teacher, boss, etc cares about the issue.