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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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To: Daffynition
the results would be shared only with the child's parentsWhen did the government start giving a damn about the child's parents?
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:07:41 PM PST
by
mykroar
(Sig is pending a Conservative party.)
To: svcw
Have you experienced your kids’ pediatrician asking your kid, if *there are guns in the house?* , yet?
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:09:06 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: mykroar
Mom’s in jail and there has been no dad since conception took place. Good luck with that.
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:10:13 PM PST
by
Daffynition
(The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. — D.H.)
To: Daffynition
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...
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:10:24 PM PST
by
mlizzy
(If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)
To: svcw
That principal needs a psych herself if she says whacked-out and bizarre things like that.
To: Daffynition
This ought to make you feel a little better:
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:23:59 PM PST
by
Slyfox
(Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness -G Wash.)
To: Stillwaters
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:24:13 PM PST
by
lonevoice
(Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days lived)
To: Daffynition
“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?
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:26:34 PM PST
by
Selene
To: Daffynition
Mandate universal mental health assessments to hold political office.
No? Why not? What are you trying to hide, Senator?
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:27:55 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
To: Daffynition
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.
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:33:25 PM PST
by
ResponseAbility
(The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
To: All
Let me guess, it will be with a school union employed psychiatrist.
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:34:46 PM PST
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: mlizzy
****Dont worry; if your kid doesnt pass, the government will have some medicine for him to take...****
Unless you have the means to make all the unpleasantness go away.
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:40:12 PM PST
by
ResponseAbility
(The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
To: ResponseAbility
This is just more evidence that we are being taken over by Nazi like thugs who will extort monies from everyone they can once they have the “laws” in place to buffalo everyone.
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:45:54 PM PST
by
ResponseAbility
(The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
To: ResponseAbility
Yep. The lunatics are in charge of the asylum.
My relative is an administrator for a school system in the NE. When the day of 9/11 the schools in the district lowered the flags to half staff. The superintendant had a FIT and she ordered them back up. Relative says she’s a real b#tch and hates him (particularly because he’s a ‘southern boy, originally).
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:49:34 PM PST
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
To: 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,
What type of mental illness do these idiots think they will diagnose for a 5 or 6 year old? Parents need to be up in arms. No way this should pass for any school age. This is very dangerous territory.
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:55:45 PM PST
by
Girlene
To: Daffynition
Not yet, now I am in grandkid territory.
Fortunately, my kid are as “crazy” as I am.
Their children do not even know, plus it is not the docs business.
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posted on
03/09/2013 6:58:25 PM PST
by
svcw
(Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
To: Girlene
When you label normally functioning individuals with “disorders” they don’t have, that could be considered anti-social behavior.
To: darkangel82
After several years, she actually advanced to superintendent of the entire unified school district, we moved to a more reasonable place.
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posted on
03/09/2013 7:00:39 PM PST
by
svcw
(Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
To: Daffynition
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.
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posted on
03/09/2013 7:12:11 PM PST
by
aruanan
To: mlizzy
If we had laws like this [and others proposed] we [the people of CT] would have been protected from the likes of adamlanza.
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posted on
03/09/2013 7:13:41 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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