SCHOOL FORCED BOY ONTO PSYCHO RX: SUIT

New York Post ^ | 9/24/02 | DOUGLAS MONTERO

[joesnuffy]

Up in my northern Wi. hometown one outspoken school board member & spouse are BIG proponents of the "amateur diagnosing" of mental illness (by school officials rubber stamped by the "school psychologist" passed on to a rubber stamping MD) and the drugging of small children...naturally she weighs in at about 400 lbs and sleeps most of the day...her kids all diagnosed with ADH are neatly quieted down so this heffer can get her beauty rest and naturally her chubby hubby is a big promoter of every elses "problem" kids doped up to...much easier to control them on their pharmaceutical leashes...
They invariable end up in teenage counseling and drug rehab...when detoxed some actually go on and do well.... others...well....the jury is still out on those...

[Aquinasfan]

I smell a class action lawsuit. Paging all lawyers...

Dyslexia is highly correlated with "attention defecit disorder" (kids who can't read get restless) and "whole language" (pictographic) reading instruction. John Taylor Gatto outlines the sorry history of this whole mess in The Underground History of American Education.

[Aquinasfan]

Parents: If the school district attempts to drug your children, get him out of there.

That's the best option. Barring that, accept the pills and flush them down the toilet.

[Let's Roll]

This entire subject is tragic.

You have boys being boys - the education bureaucracy can't deal with that.

You have the kids who respond to the stress/trauma of impersonal daycare since infancy by just "checking out" - if you withdraw, no one can hurt you. If you know any teachers, ask them how many kids refuse to make eye contact, don't listen etc.

Add the kids whose mothers drank or did drugs during pregnancy but who now want someone else to pay and then of course the psycho-babble industry shoring up their empire.

[Vic3O3]

Just another reason to homeschool!

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Hey, a very school that my oldest son used to go to tried to get him on Ritalin. However, we had already seen Ritalin wreck the life of a family member. The school nurse tried to force it on us, but we were adamant against it. In fact, she even gave articles to us in support of it (we gave her articles against it). She turned the teachers of my son against him. Finally, we were forced to take my son to a psychiatrist. When the psychiatrist agreed with our position, he said that he was unhappy with the school, because they were pressuring him to change his decision. Even after all that, the school nurse tried to overrule the psychiatrist. We moved our son to a charter school - where he did extremely well. To this day, I wish we had reported her to the AMA or threatened to sue her.

[TxBec]

ping.

[Sam's Army]

I used to work in a mental health crisis unit. It was unbelievable to me to see the kids come in and out of that unit that had been prescribed adult-size doses of drugs by pediatricians on the outside.

The solution for everything seems to be to simply medicate. ("Hey, I saw a commerical on TV about that drug, so it must be OK")

Parenting or teaching? Nah, fuhgetabodit...take this pill.

[Carry_Okie]

$75,000 is not enough. This one should be over a million.

[estrogen]

If there is one issue that scares me spitless it is the doping down and drugging of kids at school.

Agree...Why is it so hard for anyone to figure out the fact that Ritalin and drug use started just about the time that PC dictated we not discipline our children? School systems let the kids run rampant over them and when they can't control them, they just drug them.

I'm not saying it's right, but when I was in Catholic schools we feared being hit with a ruler etc...we knew who was boss and we didn't have the problems schools have today.

[Marie]

I did. :-)

[vaudine]

I would guess a great many of the children diagnosed with a need for drugs simply need a change of diet.

A few months ago I read an editorial by a child physchiatrist of many years with great credentials,railing against the medication of children without proper testing and by nincompoops who did not know what they were doing. He gave some scary case records, and is fighting this (a lonesome battle)through medical and govt. circles. Sorry I can't be more specific, name, etc, but I sent the article to my son whose ex-wife medicated their oldest son.


She is an RN with absolutely no relationship skills and could not control the child so asked a friend, a GP, to prescribe Ritalin.He did so with absolutely no testing-just her say-so and the school's.This child is extremely bright and artistic, but went to school daily on cereal, danishes, orange juice or Koolaid. No wonder he was jumpy,fidgety,and hyper. My son eventually got the boy away from her and he is okay, now.However, it took him and his present wife (a Sp. Ed.teacher with wonderful common sense)about 2 years to bring him around.

This is a horrible, pervasive usurpation of children's and parent's rights.

vaudine

[Marie]

You are a GOOD mama!

[Fred Mertz]

ping!

[ladylib]

These so called "educators" brought this all on themselves. They wonder why kids can't learn. Well, they can't because they aren't taught properly. My sister-in-law (who is also a teacher)was appalled by the new math program they were going to try out in her daughter's public school. Even so, she let her daughter remain in school one more year. Of course, everybody's math scores took a tumble. However, it took these Sherlocks a couple of years to figure out why. My sister-in-law pulled her daughter out and put her in a Catholic school where they don't have the money or inclination to "experiment" on kids.

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

"...I wonder how much mainstream coverage this case will get?...

Even if the corporate press did cover the story, I wonder if it would cover the REAL story behind the story---that is, the story of how young males fare in a misandrist matriarchy.

For example, we live in a statistics-obsessed civilization, with all "false factualization" that such an obsession inevitably leads to. But I wonder why no statistics are ever cited revealing the nature of the families that chemically lobotomized children live in? What is the ratio of male to female victims of chemical lobotomization? How many young victims have a father--their real father--living in their home at the time of the lobotomization? How many young victims have a mother who submits herself to wage slavery outside the home? There is no sign of a father in this story. It's rather remarkable how many of these stories are missing any mention of a father.

And then there is the whole saga of the "Experts" to whom the "heroic" mother submitted her son. What is a society that submits itself to experts---experts who derive their expertise from other experts? What sort of minds do people who live in such a regime posess? This sort of mind-----

"... and continued to do so for two years...."

Both the education bureaucracy and the therapeutic bureaucracy (its religious rituals and its chemical industry) are dominated by women--or by a desire to appeal to "women's" sensibilites.

"... and continued to do so for two years...."

"... and continued to do so for two years...."

"... and continued to do so for two years...."

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

"...Hats off to this Mom for courage!..."

Courage? Is that what you call it? Did you read this sentence:

"...The school district began pressuring Weathers to medicate Michael in 1997, when he was a first-grader, and continued to do so for two years, she charges.

There's more to this chemical lobotomization story than meets the eye, I think. And the claim that she was "pressured" to lobotomize her son for TWO YEARS is a typical weak-kneed, post modern "feminist" twister.

"They made me do it."

No child is safe. And male children are especially at risk.

[Marie]

There are so many things that can affect a child's behavior. Chronic earache, headache, low-grade temp, lost sleep, glucose intollerance, lactose intollerance, bad dreams, bad day, undiagnosed UTI, needing glasses, spinal problems, etc. Kids have a hard time "reading" their bodies' signals. Half the time it's, "I don't feel good," or "My tummy hurts." If it's a chronic problem, you now have an ADD kid.

Most of the time ADD is a symptom, IMHO.

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

"...Finally, we were forced to take my son to a psychiatrist....

How can people be "forced" to submit their child to a superstitious religious ritual like psychiatry? I'm quite serious in my question. How could you be forced? Would you have allowed them to force you to visit a voodoo priestess? (At least she might have addressed some of your sons dietary needs.)

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

We needed to put a stop to the entire nonsense. The school nurse was being a pain and basically ruining our child's education. We thought that by getting a ruling in our favor from a psychologist that we would put an end to it. Boy, were we ever wrong. However, we were afraid that the nurse may have been looking at trying to tar us as abusive parents.