School Refusal on the South Shore: What It Is, Why It Happens, and How to Get Your Child Back to School
Every fall, across Quincy, Weymouth, Braintree, Hingham, Plymouth, Scituate, Marshfield, Norwell, Duxbury, Milton, and Randolph, a subset of children and adolescents stop going to school. Not because they’re skipping. Not because they don’t care about their education. But because something in the school environment — anxiety, depression, social fear, academic pressure, or sensory overwhelm —…