The damage we're doing to kids due to ICE

 Three pieces of note on this: 

• Carrie Jung at WBUR spoke specifically with Massachusetts school districts about the damage that real and rumored ICE activity is having on children's access to education: 
  

  It's been an extra responsibility to provide emotional support to students and families impacted. A number of district heads in Massachusetts reported periodic dips in attendance as rumors of ICE activity swirled. 

  Noted there is both that chronic absenteeism is part of school district accountability and that students not enrolling drops a district's foundation budget, which can drop their state funding.
  
  

• The Boston Globe Magazine took an in-depth look at the children left behind after their parents are taken by ICE. 
  

  Children in these situations can be prone to anxiety and depression, says Charles A. Nelson III, a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital.
  Having an attachment figure suddenly vanish can be “really devastating to kids,” Nelson says, in part because they thrive on predictability and constancy. “When we say ‘taken away,’ there’s this mysterious black box that exists on the other side.”
  In interviews over the last several months, families across Massachusetts recounted how the lives of their children have been upended by these arrests. 

• In some cases across the country, ICE has taken students themselves. USA Today has some of their stories. 
  

  Martir is one of at least five children and teens who have been rounded up by ICE and deported from the United States with their parents since the start of Trump's second presidential term. Many won't return to their schools in the fall.

  "Martir’s absence rippled beyond the school walls, touching the hearts of neighbors and strangers alike, who united in a shared hope for his safe return," Sara Myers, a spokesperson for the Torrance Unified School District, told USA TODAY.