Exactly. Could not have said it better myself.
More like "law clarifies that school officials had greatly overstepped their bounds, and that PARENTS decide in consultation with their DOCTOR when a child needs medicating". But that's kind of a long headline...I'm sure that's what they meant though.
Because teachers see so many children every day, they are the most inclinded to want to enforce uniform behavior for easier management. This used to be done by use of disciplinary action that often included embarassment in front of the child's peers, but as that approach has fallen out of favor among parents and child development experts, DRUGGING THE CHILD has become more acceptable.
Two words: Home school.
Thank God this fed law was passed. Twice I was hit with "negligent parenting" over my refusal to medicate my son. He was only 3 when the charges came that he "might" be ADD/ADH. Anyway, the schools then had these survey forms for parents to fill out. Every danged person alive would qualify as being ADD/ADH if they were to complete this survey. I didn't fill 'em out. I sent copies of 'em around to every legislator and concerned organization and talk show host I knew back then. It sure was an ugly time in my life, desperately trying to keep my son safe from the Educational Leviathan. How'd he turn out? GREAT!
My wife has been the head RN for a very busy FP doctor for 26 years.
Over the two plus decades, he has probably refused to write hundreds of rxes for Ritalin demanded by the CTA Union teachers of California to calm boys down.
His reply was if his parents had done this, his sister, two brothers and he would have been drugged on Ritalin.
If parents push it, he tells them to give their kids Cokes, Pepsi or Mountain Dews to drink to calm them down. If they decide push past that, he informs them to find another doctor for the entire family. After a few letters to pushy parents dropping the entire family as patients, the word got out in the community not to push the good Dr and demand Ritalin for their kids.
OH, my goodness, he sounds like ... gasp!... a little boy!! How dreadful is that?! /sarc
Ever notice that a huge percentage of the kids they want to drug are boys? Boys are boys, and they're a handful. Teachers used to know that. (Of course, they also used to be able to wash their little mouths out with soap on occasion, but we can't do that anymore now, can we?)
My response to that is, "It's against the law to practice medicine without a license."
If you wouldn't let a school official take out your kid's appendix, why would you let a school official prescribe drugs?
"I soon learned to play dumb and not raise my hand and she would call on me thinking she had me."
I did that EXACT same thing. However, I always had good conduct grades, until High School that is!
This is a crock. In CA, when minorities act up in classrooms -- it's not called "abnormal" -- it's a called a "cultural thang". Normal? What the heck is normal? I witnessed out of control students of every background imaginable -- they weren't called "abnormal" -- OH NO! CA Education simply used their bad behaviors to establish MORE SPECIAL ED agenda and mandatory funding. It was never called "abnormal".
"You know, it's against the law for you to deny a child medication."
You know, it's against the law to practice medicine without a licence!!!!!
You know, you're just guessing. You can't "PROVE" my child has this condition, and you can't "PROVE" your prescription is SAFE & EFFECTIVE!!!!