How many kids have to commit suicide or be murdered before America will step up to the plate, and provide mental heath care at schools?

I have to add something here. I'm 20 and it wasn't that long ago I attended high school. Throughout middle school I was cutting myself. Razor blades, razors, whatever I could find. I told a friend about it who told a counselor and I was required by the school to attend mandatory therapy with a licensed professional. I went. They put my family and I in a family therapy which my mother and I attended one time and never went again.

Throughout high school I wanted to kill myself, continued self harm for quite a while. I did not feel comfortable talking to the school counselor who's door was always open. My parents found out I was still cutting, my father threatened to strip search me if I couldnt be trusted to not harm myself.

I do not believe the issue is mainly with schools not offering help but with kids not seeking help or parents ignoring or remaining oblivious to their child's problems. Thinking they'll grow out of it or they'll figure it out. Or getting angry, like my parents did. The signs show, look for them and help your child.

Schools could be better about helping the students but they go to school to learn and honestly they do offer help. Where are the parents taking responsibility? I never met a kid who was suicidal actually getting the help they needed. Instead, they may have gone to the counselor. Spending valuable class time in a counselor's office to chat, hang out, or actually discuss their issues.