In the modern day, mental health has become an eminent subject all over the world. Providing adequate resources for the sociality is necessary, especially for the youths. Teenagers are one of the groups with the highest chance of getting diagnosed with mental disorders in an unaware condition. As mental health problems become worse if they are not identified or left untreated, it will cause a significant impact on their development stage and even their life outcome. Most of the time, youths would be at schools for their development and learning journey, and schools should provide sufficient mental health services for students.

Lack of mental health service would lead to a negative impact on youths’ growing phases. As students were still growing, their cerebellum was still developing as well. Undergoing mental illness would bring a significant effect on them. According to the article, Improving Mental Health in Schools, Eric Rossen, and Katherine C. Cowan states, “More to the point, in a high school of 750 students, about 150 students will experience a mental illness that at some point will interfere with their learning. Most struggle with issues related to thinking, mood, or behavior. These problems impair a student’s ability to concentrate, have positive relationships, and cope with adversity” (pg- 9). The number of high school students diagnosed with the mental disorder would negatively impact their academic study, social development, and mindset. In other words, as youths undergoing mental illness in their growing stages, their behavior, thinking, and mindset would reduce. Which would weaker their concentration and have less focus on school activities. Apart from this, it would affect their social development due to the change in their behavior and attitude, and they would isolate themself because of the distance they feel from others. As students experience mental health problems, they would be facing academic impair, and the school community would experience a difficult period.

The scarcity of mental aid for students would constitute a dilemma for the school community. In the article, Responding to Today’s Mental Health Needs of Children, Familes and Schools: Revisiting the Preservice Training and Preparation of School-Based Personnel, James R. Koller and Julie M. Bertel mention, “In fact, while an estimated 550,000 individuals fail to complete high school each year, roughout 45 percent of the one million individuals who took the General Educational Development (GED) high school equivalency test in 2001 reported mental health concerns as contributory factors to school failure and dropout” (pg-200). There are significant numbers of students who drop out of high school because of the mental illness they experience over specific years. In other sayings, students undergo mental health problems that don’t simply go away on their own while it would often become worse and in long-term consequences contribute to the most intractable problems, such as reduced concentration, suffer under anxiety or depression, which would drive them to quit school. Since the amounts of students didn’t receive aids adequately at the right time, their health is getting more critical, and their academics would be impaired, which cause a shift in the life outcome. As students experience a mental health problem, the school community would be in a hazardous environment. 

Establishing adequate mental health services at each school for students is essential to sustaining a safe school. Without notice, students’ conditions can cause unsafe environments in severe matters. Based on the text, Improving Mental Health in Schools, Rossen, and Cowan, states, “National attention given to children’s mental health has waxed and waned for years, mostly subject the force of tragedies like high-profile suicides and school shooting” (pg,9). Over each decade or even years, mass shootings at school and youth suicides weren’t an unfamiliar subject anymore. As one or few students are diagnosed with a mental health disorder, it no longer becomes a personal or household problem besides its relevance to a school community. Likely, the most severe event was a school shooting case, where a student diagnosed with mental illness isn’t lead to their problem but also affects other students, and school faculty in a more critical case would cause death. Over these few years, America’s schools have experienced gun shootings incidents and cause many students and school staff to experience a dangerous life or affect their mental health due to their experience. In the absence of a sedate mental aid in schools, the environments are no longer safe for parents to give their kids go to school in a carefree feeling and for faculty to work safely and comfortably with students.

All in all, it’s essential for schools to have ample support for students who experience a mental disorder. Contributing enough aids helps maintain safety for the schools’ community and give students a healthy development stage. For students to succeed in their future, school is where the youth grow, learn and build their social experience.