What Next TBD | The Cost of Suicide Prevention Software

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🗓️ 29 December 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Between a third and half of American schoolchildren have a form of “mental health monitoring” software on their school devices, which scans for and flags certain keywords. While intuitively appealing, is it worth the false positives, privacy issues, and compromised trust? Guest: Ellen Barry, mental health reporter for the New York Times. Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.0	up that this episode discusses self-harm and suicide.
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1:04.3	By 2020, 16-year-old Maddie Cholka had been struggling for a while with her mental health.
1:11.8	She and her family,
1:18.3	who lived in Neosha, Missouri, had had difficult conversations about her suicidal ideation and how to keep her safe. And one night, Angel, the mom, was woken up by police flashlights through her window.
1:30.3	She told me, and she went to the door,
1:32.4	and there were two police officers.
1:36.5	That's Ellen Barry, who writes about mental health for the New York Times.
1:41.1	And the officer said, does someone named Maddie Cholko live here?
1:47.7	And Angel was terrified because she, her first thought was that Maddie had run away.
1:52.7	But she had no idea sort of where this was coming from. And so she went to Maddie's room and the police came with her.
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