[Daffynition]

Welcome to the state of Commuecticut!

Someone should just pull the plug so we can be quietly annexed by New York. :(

[the OlLine Rebel]

And here we go....

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

We are now Nazi Germany. Are they going to be photographed to calipers measuring the cranial, facial anomolies like back in “the day”?

[GeronL]

The assessments would be confidential

No they won't.

[Slyfox]

The assessments would be confidential, the bill says; the results would be shared only with the child's parents.

Yeah right. It will all be on a database easily accessed by the federales just like our medical histories.

[Right Wing Assault]

Administrators, Counselors, and Teachers first!

[aimhigh]

Oregon has a similar bill in the legislature.

[JoeProBono]

[svcw]

When my kids were in elementary school, the principal told me that children in families that the parents were actively involved in their education were suspect for mental evaluation.
I told her if they see a psych without my written approval I would own her till the end of time.
Loathing is to good a word for what I feel about teacher unions and public schools.

[mykroar]

the results would be shared only with the child's parents

When did the government start giving a damn about the child's parents?

[mlizzy]

Don’t worry; if your kid doesn’t “pass,” the government will have some medicine for him to take... quietly... in a little room somewhere... with cameras, and “caretakers,” and bars...

[lonevoice]

ping

[Selene]

“JoAnn Eaccarino, president of the board of the Connecticut Association of School Based Health Centers, backs the bill. But she said the mandatory assessments should start even earlier than the middle school years. “Our suggestion would be to start these assessments with their first entry into school,’’ “

Then what? Mandatory drugs?

[TigersEye]

Mandate universal mental health assessments to hold political office.
No? Why not? What are you trying to hide, Senator?

[ResponseAbility]

These control freaks are the mentally imbalanced ones. I think all people in public office should be required to earn only a meager salary with no “extra” monies outside of that salary. Punishable by imprisonment only. Controls on the control freaks is the only way to achieve balance.

[autumnraine]

Let me guess, it will be with a school union employed psychiatrist.

[aruanan]

Bill Would Require Mental Health Assessments For Schoolchildren

The problem with this is that many of the problems encountered in children are caused or exacerbated by the same system that wants to do the testing. Want an immediate improvement in mental and emotional health? Don't start kids in school until they've passed their 6th birthday and then have the boys start one or two years later than that. Behavioral problems and learning difficulties are over-represented in boys. Instead of recognizing the innate differences between the sexes in personality and rates of physical, mental, and emotional maturation and adjusting the school to fit the reality, the boys are treated as problems because they don't fit into the program like most of the girls do. But then, most of modern education was never about the child but about the socio-politico enterprise that uses him to perpetuate itself.

[ClearBlueSky]

Something tells me a schoolchild who says they are really another gender won’t be considered mentally unhealthy. Kid who pretend to be cowboys or Superman, however, will be.

[rudabaga]

Well isn’t this about the most awful thing ever. I think they need a good old-fashioned protest over in Conn. I doubt there will be more than 100 brain-dead supporters of this disgusting bill.

[Elsiejay]

How about a mental health evaluation for all Connecticutt (sp?) state legislators?

[2ndDivisionVet]