After a suicide attempt, a young girl opted for homeschooling as a viable alternative to in-person attendance. Tara was 13 when she tried to take her own life. “I felt stressed and overwhelmed,” she said, carefully picking her words in the short answers she gives during an interview. For between three and four years, Tara felt homework was all that was filling her evenings, weekends, even her holidays. “I don’t know if I coped. I just lived with it,” she said.Tara’s mother knew her daughter was depressed, and the young girl went to weekly therapy sessions. Yet the attempted suicide came without a warning. “I think she felt there was no way out. The only reward for work [was] more work and harder work,” Tara’s mother said.Tara, a pupil in a private school, spent six weeks in the psychiatric unit of a Luxembourg hospital a year ago. For her mother, one thing was clear: she could not return to her school.About 15% of adolescents had seriously thought about committing suicide, a study by the Luxembourg University from 2014 found, while a further 7.7% had attempted it. At the same time, surveys found that levels of stress at school, and the climate in classrooms, had worsened in Luxembourg.