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To: Sabertooth
No, Saber. It does say exactly what I said.

Your own post bears that out.

122..."strong school mental health programs can attend to the health and behavior concerns of students."

Those would be students that are indeed presenting with behavioral concerns.

and then..."all youngsters in a school, WITH PARENTAL CONSENT are given a computer-based questionnaire that screens them for mental illnesses and suicide risk."

With parental consent.

It is not forced on anyone. Therefore all those who are saying that we will be lined up and forced to study ink blots are wrong.

That is what started this whole thing. People saying that this would be forced on every citizen.
908 posted on 06/22/2004 10:55:07 PM PDT by texasflower (in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
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To: texasflower
With parental consent.

Look, I stipulated the parental consent, and emphasized it in my post to make clear that the commission wasn't recommending mandatory screening.

The point, however, is that the screening targets "all youngsters" in public schools, pending parental consent. It's a massive and ambitious screening process that is envisioned, not something limited to at-risk kids, as your post implied when you wrote "in the schools if a child is presenting with behavioral or learning problems that has come to the attention of the school diagnostician, school psychologist or school nurse," or "screening can be as simple as situations like those listed in which a significant risk of psychological trauma exists."

It is not forced on anyone. Therefore all those who are saying that we will be lined up and forced to study ink blots are wrong.
Who is saying this?

Unless you've got cites and links, this is a strawman.


909 posted on 06/22/2004 11:21:09 PM PDT by Sabertooth (Mohammedanism is an evil empire.)
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To: texasflower
..."all youngsters in a school, WITH PARENTAL CONSENT are given a computer-based questionnaire that screens them for mental illnesses and suicide risk." With parental consent.

The case I talked about in the last post had PARENTAL CONSENT. After the school blackmailed them.

983 posted on 06/23/2004 5:25:29 PM PDT by TigersEye (Intellectuals only exist if you think they do!)
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