Teen activists score mental health days for Oregon students
(WorldNews Health)

SALEM, Oregon (AP) - Oregon will allow students to take `mental health days` just as they would sick days, expanding the reasons for excused school absences to include mental or behavioral health under a new law that experts say is one of the first of its kind in the U.S. But don`t call it coddling. The students behind the measure say it`s meant to change the stigma around mental health in a state that has some of the United States` highest suicide rates. Mental health experts say it is one of the first state laws to explicitly instruct schools...