United Left records an initiative so that students can also ask for loss

United Left defends that young people who have already completed mandatory training can ask for a Student Low. That is, the students of BChilleratero, FP or University Have the opportunity to take advantage of a right that, until now, only enjoyed workers. The political group has registered in Congress a parliamentary initiative to create a new system of “student casualties.”

The training argues that Spanish adolescents and young people are increasing More mental health problems And more, percentage than the European average. In the text of the initiative, the conclusions of the latest UNICEF study are collected, whose data reflects that 41.1% of young people between 13 and 18 years manifest or believe they have had a mental health problem in the last year.

Within this group, «more than half (51.4%) has not asked for help and one in three has not talked to anyone about these problems. All these data lead to such raw statements as the fact that suicide is, today, the first cause of death in young people and adolescents between 12 and 29 years, ”the text affects.

From IU they argue that “if a worker who suffers from this type of disorders is entitled to a work decline, it should also be so for students”, among other reasons because “if they stop going to class they may suffer serious consequences when lacking this right, such as the loss of scholarships or a decrease in qualifications, on the sidelines of other more personal problems because of their health status.”