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Bill Would Require Mental Health Assessments For Schoolchildren
Hart\ford Courant ^
| March 8, 2013
| DANIELA ALTIMARI
Posted on 03/09/2013 5:42:02 PM PST by Daffynition
MIDDLETOWN — Lawmakers are considering a measure that would make Connecticut the first state in the nation to mandate universal mental health assessments for school-age children.
Senate Bill 374 — one of several relating to mental health policy in the aftermath of the Newtown attack — would require all public schoolchildren in grades 6, 8, 10 and 12 to undergo a behavioral health screening. The law would also apply to home-schooled children ages 12, 14 and 17. It makes no mention of private or parochial school students.
The assessments would be confidential, the bill says; the results would be shared only with the child's parents.
Public schools already conduct vision and hearing screenings and school nurses periodically check spines for scoliosis. This bill would add mandatory behavioral health assessments to the list.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: homeschool; mentalhealth; oversteps
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Welcome to the state of Commuecticut!
Someone should just pull the plug so we can be quietly annexed by New York. :(
To: Daffynition
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posted on
03/09/2013 5:44:27 PM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: Daffynition
We are now Nazi Germany. Are they going to be photographed to calipers measuring the cranial, facial anomolies like back in “the day”?
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posted on
03/09/2013 5:47:35 PM PST
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
To: Daffynition
The assessments would be confidentialNo they won't.
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posted on
03/09/2013 5:49:28 PM PST
by
GeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)
To: the OlLine Rebel
Time for Zee Learning Helmet!!!!
Doesn't this violate a bunch of existing medical laws etc...
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posted on
03/09/2013 5:49:48 PM PST
by
GraceG
To: Daffynition
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.
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posted on
03/09/2013 5:50:38 PM PST
by
Slyfox
(Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness -G Wash.)
To: the OlLine Rebel
Class action lawyers salivating.
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posted on
03/09/2013 5:51:45 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
We are now Nazi Germany. Are they going to be photographed to calipers measuring the cranial, facial anomolies like back in “the day”?
Thought Crime is a Hate Crime!!!! As is thinking different...
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posted on
03/09/2013 5:51:59 PM PST
by
GraceG
To: Daffynition
Administrators, Counselors, and Teachers first!
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posted on
03/09/2013 5:53:23 PM PST
by
Right Wing Assault
(Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
To: Daffynition
Oregon has a similar bill in the legislature.
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posted on
03/09/2013 5:53:44 PM PST
by
aimhigh
( Guns do not kill people. Abortion kills people.)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
03/09/2013 5:55:09 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
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posted on
03/09/2013 5:56:08 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: aimhigh
My sympathies....we have the coasts covered.....now the rest of flyover. :(
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posted on
03/09/2013 5:57:52 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: JoeProBono
To: JoeProBono
Yep, I’m furios!.....off the charts!
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posted on
03/09/2013 5:58:53 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: Slyfox
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:00:55 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Are they going to be photographed to calipers measuring the cranial, facial anomolies like back in “the day”? No, they'll use face measuring software like in an article I saw the other day.
Some police chief was using it to determine whether or not the department applicants were racist.
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:01:19 PM PST
by
MamaTexan
(To follow Original Constitutional Intent, one MUST acknowledge the Right of Secession)
To: Daffynition
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:04:13 PM PST
by
Slyfox
(Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness -G Wash.)
To: Daffynition
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.
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:05:25 PM PST
by
svcw
(Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
To: Slyfox
Poor Connecticut. We are on the verge of implosion [in more ways than one].
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:07:19 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
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