[ppaul]

NEXT HEADLINE TO EXPECT:

BOARD APPROVES IN-SCHOOL PSYCHIATRY SERVICES

Coming your way at taxpayer expense, if they haven't already.
And, they will be able to dispense Ritalin and other psychotropic drugs directly to the children - no middlemen(or parents or family doctor) needed!

[ladylib]

Well, George Bush wants school kids to be given a mental health screening:

http://www.dream-tool.net/tools/messageview.mv?view+educationnewsbb+1916+index+0AGFcVFkHV.

[CompSciGuy]

But of course, as our next great president to be wrote,

"It takes a village to raise a child." Isn't socialism wonderful? /sarcasm

Cheers,
CSG

[Lizavetta]

BOARD APPROVES IN-SCHOOL PSYCHIATRY SERVICES Coming your way at taxpayer expense, if they haven't already.

I type Special Education hearings. The number of in-school psychologists, counselors, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, inclusion specialists, and behavior therapists currently employed in school districts - presumably for all the truly f****d up students and also the pseudo f****d up kids who are in reality just brats - would astound you.

If you ever wondered why per pupil spending has skyrocketed, the mental health staff the schools now "need" is why.

My own take on kids who cut themselves is that it's the final phase of a childhood in which the parents were too damn busy to pay attention to their children.