Posted on 08/22/2005 2:55:20 PM PDT by american spirit
With school starting up again many parents are inquiring as to whether the schools will start implementing the new federally created mental health testing programs in the schools that so alarmed the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons that they issued a statement decrying it as a "dangerous scheme that will heap even more coercive pressure on parents to medicate children with potentially dangerous side effects". Any new information concerning implementation of the programs and/or groups fighting these intiatives would be appreciated.
Are they going to test the administrators and teachers too? Maybe they should START THERE!!!
Haven't heard a peep!
Shudders for public school parents and kids!
You don't think that POLITICS will influence the test, do you?????
I'd say the group most in need of mental health screening is public officials, and most specifically Senators.
Both last year and this year we were given a form where we had to identify the areas where our children would most benefit from counseling. We were to rank them based on order of importance (things like grief counseling to anger management to study habits).
I would suspect that these forms represent a sort of soft launch of this program. But there has been no notification for us of screenings ... yet.
Here's a new tagline to illustrate:
Don't listen to him!
Ron Paul is just another Constitution-quoting, book-reading losertarian!!!
It's all being done for the future of the children, don't you know!
God I'm glad I don't have kids to have to subject to our public school system.
Let's see. Johnny asks too many questions the teacher can't answer, so they call him ADD. They call in a counselor working with the school, who agrees. They require Johnny to see a doctor, who also works with the school. Doctor recommends medication. Parents disagree, try to protest, are charged by DHS with neglect, and Johnny is medicated and taken away to a foster home.
This isn't a crazy future. This has already happened in some districts.
...Haven't heard anything about coerced mental testing....
I heard about it. Thought it was a bad idea. Don't know if it went forward or not.
I think if a kid has real problems it would be evident to a lay person. I don't see any need for screening all kids, since most kids are normal. Something like this kind of assumes that mental illness in children is an epidemic of such proportion as to compare it to mandatory vacinations for disease.
Granted, I don't work in the CYA world of the public school system, nor do I send my kids there for their educations.
It is a fact though that if the school wants to test your kids mental health, and you refuse, they can test them anyway without your approval.
That I think is enough power, maybe even too much.
I was a few short years too old to be a prime candidate for that... I asked a LOT of questions.
I figure being conservative, especially if you are also religous, will be deemed a mental illness. That way they get to medicate the "bigots" and the "homophobes."
Good info.......I just figure as sneaky as these politicians and pharmaceutical companies are they're working overtime behind the scenes to force this on school age kids without the knowledge of most parents.
Yeah, I'd agree on the "soft launch" idea.......I'm quite sure the local school officials didn't dream up a form like that on their own volition. Could've been a premature "shot across the bow" just to see where the opposition might come from.
Same here!
My youngest graduated in 1987....
I have 2 grandsons in a Christian Academy..Thank God!
They have never (nor will they ever) set foot in a public school.
http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/2005/mar05/psrmar05.html
Article on it. Public schools are evil.
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