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Students with mental health struggles linked to absenteeism and lower grades, showing clear need for more in-school support

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Children are struggling with mental health in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, authors say.

But different groups of children are struggling in markedly different ways, they say.

They say school shutdowns, social isolation and other stressors may have been brought on by the pandemic.

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