The article's title is misleading. Children cannot be forced to take psychotropic medications with parental consent or a court order.
I wonder how persuasive school officials are with weak-willed or ignorant parents in getting their consent to dope-up their kids.
However, what the schools do is refuse to allow the child to attend school unless they agree to take the drugs. Then, the parents are liable for not sending their children to compulsory education, unless they then homeschool them.
Technically, yes. In reality, schools can (and have) made consent to drugging a condition for allowing the kid in the school, and have brought "abuse" charges against parents who refuse to medicate the kid after a "finding" by a doc or shrink that recommends drugging.
I pulled my middle one out and homeschooled rather than deal with that