Posted on 01/27/2016 2:43:38 AM PST by raybbr
NEWTOWN - A proposal to create detailed profiles of students’ personal lives as part of a plan to better manage mental health issues in the classroom might sound like a transgression of the school district’s authority.
But in the post-Sandy Hook world, the danger is not that privacy rights will be sidestepped by school districts looking to create comprehensive diagnostic pictures of students with special needs, Superintendent Joseph Erardi said.
“There would only be a danger if we didn’t do that,†he said. “The question needs to be: ‘If the school district doesn’t take this on, how do we forge ahead?’ â€
Erardi oversaw a brain trust of education leaders and mental health experts who constructed a blueprint for change by studying the lessons in a 100-page dossier about troubled Sandy Hook mass murderer Adam Lanza.
The proposal, which Erardi presented to the state Board of Education earlier this month, is not a new initiative that requires more money to implement, he said. Instead, it reinforces the authority districts already have under existing mandates, such as the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
The proposals encourage districts to
· Get serious about early identification of students’ mental health issues
· Address their social, emotional and physical needs
· Create comprehensive student profiles from all areas of the youth’s life
· Collaborate with community organizations from churches to doctor’s offices
(Excerpt) Read more at newstimes.com ...
Basically declare every student "special needs" and you can be in control of their lives.
Yet it is a privacy issue to view the social media posts of rapefugees from Islamic terrorist hotbeds.
We the people had better pull our collective heads out.
Exactly how is a school system a “healthcare provider?”
I’d not be surprised if they hadn’t even figured out what their responsibilities would be under HIPAA.
It is if they pass a law stating it is.
Of course, but is that what they are proposing here?
How in hell did we finally get to this point?
Back in the 50’s and 60’s when I was in school these “problems” did not exist. You were strictly held accountable for your actions and the resultant rewards or punishment. NO ONE! JUST YOU!
Now look at how weak our society has become and the need for physiological help for all is now the battle cry of the weak and timid of the millennial weaklings.
No wonder our heritage of being self-sufficient has been totally erased.
Probably not in so many words. However, without changing the laws they cannot implement their proposal.
One of the recommendations in Erardi’s proposal is that students who don’t want to attend class should undergo a comprehensive health examination before they are allowed to be home-schooled.
Another recommendation is that home-schooled students should be assigned a case manager, allowing the district to determine whether parents are meeting the special needs of the student.
“Erardi oversaw a brain trust of education leaders and mental health experts who constructed a blueprint for change by studying the lessons in a 100-page dossier about troubled Sandy Hook mass murderer Adam Lanza.”
Here’s an idea, hows about we just lock up the tards instead of letting them roam the halls of the schools?
Put the nuts in the nut house, not in the schools!
1) Collect data to show that many troubled students have a single mom for a parent
2) Justify more money to schools (pre-pre-k to 12) to pay teachers to be the students’ parents all day
Yes, there are plenty of other reasons for troubled students. But my guess is that every one of those reasons has a solution that starts with “pay teachers more”.
And most of the reasons involve parents (from what I’ve seen with 2 kids in college now). And none of the solutions involve parents (e.g. taking away EBT cards if the student doesn’t improve)
Homeschool ping
Both lists as this affects everyone.
This is what single-payer, socialist-entitlement, and cartel monopoly schooling ( SS schooling )produces.
Gee! It only took one to three generations of SS schooling to give us Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Another thee to four and we have a serious communist running for president and Bernie Sanders is filling cheering stadiums.
It's simple really. Children in single-payer and socialist-entitlement schools are risk of learning that the same voting mob that gives them tuition-free schooling is also powerful enough to give them **LOTS** of “free” stuff!
198what? Wasn’t there a movie about this? When the Bureaucrats decided you would commit a crime they sent someone out to whack you—for the Children?
Another recommendation is that home-schooled students should be assigned a case manager, allowing the district to determine whether parents are meeting the special needs of the student.
They love to connect this killer to home-schooling. The truth is, he was in the school system until age 15, and then he enrolled in college ("homeschooled" for - what? - a few months in-between?). He was having social and emotional troubles in the school system. So, apparently, the school system was the problem. Then he didn't commit this atrocity until age 20. So, what do people blame? Homeschooling, of course.
Correction: As per that timeline, he was in school until AGE 16 - old enough to drop out.
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