Do You Want Mandated Psych Testing for Your 5-Year OId? NY Does!

The Independent Sentinel ^ | January 15, 2014 | Sara Noble

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Now they want to psych test your little children. What is New York going to do with that information?

A bill introduced by State Senator Margaret Markey, A8186-2013, calls for an amendment to education law to mandate psychological screenings for students in public schools as part of the required health certificate.

The law reads that a mandatory health certificate “shall also state that a psychological examination was performed and that the child is mentally fit to permit attendance at school.”

That’s not all. The bill further reads: “Each such certificate shall also state the student’s body mass index (BMI) and weight status category.”

What do they plan to do with this information? Why would we need it when New York already has massive regulations and programs for special education?

They also plan to leave it to the school physician or nurse to conduct a blood test for sickle cell anemia in those cases where they believe it is warranted.

This would apply to all new entrants, not just kindergarten children.

The bill can be found at the NYS Senate.

Markey, a Queens legislator, is famous for going after salt in cooking in restaurants and pushing for a sex abuse bill that targeted Catholic schools though the overwhelming majority of sex abuse cases occurred in public schools.

This bill does not have a co-sponsor and will probably go nowhere but people must understand one thing – this is where statists want to go.

[Vince Ferrer]

Won’t go anywhere do could still be useful for political ads.

[ransomnote]

How much you want to bet that the school would either not allow parents to know the results of students’ evaluations or would only release limited information upon formal request. This would be done because whomever releases psychological evaluation information to others (usually the patients themselves) becomes legally responsible for the actions of the person informed. So, for example, if you evaluate someone with Borderline Personality disorder (which happen to be prone to suicide) and tell them their diagnosis, (BPD) you become liable, legally, should they become suicidal re their diagnoses.
I truly doubt school staff is qualified to understand those evaluations and would be prone to misusing and misunderstanding it and then they wouldn’t tell the parents what’s in them....

[Political Junkie Too]

Why don't they just assign the child his/her life occupation at the same time, while they're at it.

Then mandate that a QR code be tatooed to the child's arm so he can be forever scanned for his "permanent record" of occupational performance.

-PJ

[Disambiguator]

I added the “banglist” keyword, as this does relate to gun control (get ‘em on an “ineligible to own guns” list while they’re young)

[SoldierDad]

As a School Psychologist I would strongly protest this bill. Thank God I do not live/work in NY.

[SeminoleCounty]

Big Govt getting bigger

You can bet, like everything else libs do....this will be directed at white kids....while black & Hispanic kids get a pass. Bet on it

[PowderMonkey]

"The law reads that a mandatory health certificate “shall also state that a psychological examination was performed and that the child is mentally fit to permit attendance at school.”

The reverse will also hold true. That certificate can be "suspended" by a bureaucrat, pending further review. That record will carry into adulthood as well. Welcome to the gulag, New Yorkers. You get the government you deserve.

[dasboot]

They stay in the school. But they get double the funding for that special needs student. Get it?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Good call.

[Still Thinking]

So where does he go if not mentally fit?

Duh - straight to the legislature with them!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

So where does he go if not mentally fit?

You could homeschool him. Even a total psycho who is homeschooled would be better-educated (and probably more capable) than the mentally fit publik skrewelers.

[oldenuff2no]

Screw that.

[dasboot]

Amazing that NY is only doing this now. The program was in full swing in the 1990’s.
One daughter was identified ADD. The other needed psych testing to qualify for advanced math. Or she’d have to repeat algebra 1

The schools were on a mission to push as many kids as they could into SPED...for the money.

So we started homeschooling.

All good.

The first was illiterate. We found out the hard way. She’s a writer now.
The other is an engineer and deck officer...chief mate on Endeavor.....of Titanic fame....Bob Ballard’s discovery of.

I have to thank the useful idiots for the wake up call.
Best of years...teaching them. And they were able to achieve their dreams.

[CSM]

Our name is Equality 7-2521, as it is written on the iron bracelets that all men wear their left wrists with their names written upon it.

[Black Agnes]

Not just the child. Anyone living in the child’s household.

[dasboot]

I resemble that remark.

Tru dat

“Even a total psycho who is homeschooled would be better-educated (and probably more capable) than the mentally fit publik skrewelers.”

[dasboot]

Psycho parent teacher.

[Wiser now]

According to her biography she is married to a New York state Supreme Court Justice. Scary couple, both Rats.

[OneWingedShark]

“We are going to take things away from you [eg your children?] for the ‘common good’.” - Hillary Clinton

Don't worry, NY Republicans will address the problem by rolling over and apologizing for parents.

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[MissMagnolia]

I believe the key to REALLY getting the country back to some semblance of what the founders intended is to homeschool. Kids get a real education, learn how to think, are not indoctrinated, and are taught their parents morals/values, not that of some Lib/Leftist Union ‘teacher’.