Bill Would Require Mental Health Assessments For Schoolchildren

Hart\ford Courant ^ | March 8, 2013 | DANIELA ALTIMARI

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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.

[mykroar]

the results would be shared only with the child's parents

When did the government start giving a damn about the child's parents?

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Have you experienced your kids’ pediatrician asking your kid, if *there are guns in the house?* , yet?

[Daffynition]

Mom’s in jail and there has been no dad since conception took place. Good luck with that.

[mlizzy]

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...

[darkangel82]

That principal needs a psych herself if she says whacked-out and bizarre things like that.

[Slyfox]

This ought to make you feel a little better:

[lonevoice]

ping

[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,’’ “

Then what? Mandatory drugs?

[TigersEye]

Mandate universal mental health assessments to hold political office.
No? Why not? What are you trying to hide, Senator?

[ResponseAbility]

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.

[autumnraine]

Let me guess, it will be with a school union employed psychiatrist.

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****Don’t worry; if your kid doesn’t “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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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.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

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).

[Girlene]

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.

[svcw]

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.

[darkangel82]

When you label normally functioning individuals with “disorders” they don’t have, that could be considered anti-social behavior.

[svcw]

After several years, she actually advanced to superintendent of the entire unified school district, we moved to a more reasonable place.

[aruanan]

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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If we had laws like this [and others proposed] we [the people of CT] would have been protected from the likes of adamlanza.