Posted on 02/06/2013 7:56:23 AM PST by Sopater
Proposed Bill 374 filed in the Connecticut General Assembly would require all homeschooled children ages 12, 14, and 17 to undergo a behavioral health assessment. These assessments would be conducted by an unspecified health care provider and would be conducted even though there was no indication whatsoever that these children had a behavioral problem. The bill states that the results of the assessments are to be disclosed only to the child’s parent or guardian, but that the health care provider must submit a form to the State Board of Education verifying that the child has received the assessment.
According to the Connecticut Behavioral Health Partnership, a state organization made up of the Department of Children and Families, Department of Social Services, Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, and others, a behavioral health assessment is quite comprehensive and invasive. It includes “a review of physical and mental health, intelligence, school performance, employment, level of function in different domains including family situation, and behavior in the community.”
Proposed Bill 374 would essentially authorize the state to conduct regular social services investigations of homeschooling families without any basis to do so. This outrageous legislative proposal must be stopped in its tracks before it gains any momentum.
This legislation is sponsored by Sen. Toni Nathaniel Harp (10th Dist.) and Rep. Toni E. Walker (93rd Dist.). The bill is presently in the Public Health Committee. HSLDA is asking homeschoolers to immediately contact members of the committee and express their opposition to this unwarranted invasion of family privacy.
Any "damage" done by schooling was dwarfed by whatever deficiencies he had from birth, IMO. Look at a picture and tell me you can't clearly see that.
Because they're liberals.
No matter how much power liberals have, it's never enough.
Probably. The public school system failed Lanza big time. So now they're trying to blame their own failure on his mother who attempted to save him. They're trying to point the finger away from themselves.
I couldn't believe the public school funerally they had for the bus driver that got shot last week. My gosh, they even used the school colors at his funeral. I was waiting to see cheer leaders and a marching band!
The guy was a man with a life, but the whole disgraceful thing was all about the friggen school! They used the poor mans body like their new school mascot!
“The lunatics truly are running the asylum.”
If the public school students were given a behavioral test WE defined they’d all fail ;)
UH, hate to tell you this, but it is usually the family that makes these decisions. Did it ever occur to you that maybe, just maybe it was the desire of the family and not some nefarious deed?
I was going to SARCASTICALLY suggest that they test all children, but you know that there is some whacka doodle that will think that is a great idea and expand the legislation.
The legislation covers ALL school children.
Just saw that WTF.
Nope. In their grief, I'm sure they agreed to do what ever the school wanted to do. Think "rail roaded."
I believe later they'll look back an see the coldness of it all. They'll remember that he was a man - not a piece of broken school furniture, and then they'll mourn his death as they should.
That why I said what I said in my first post. Of course the haters will just blow that off and claim we deserve it because, well just because they say so and are our betters.
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And of course you have compelling evidence that proves this beyond the shadow of a doubt. Otherwise you would just be bearing false witness.
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I'll try this again.....
This is a Connecticut issue it seems but
This can be stopped just like HR6 was and if it isn't I can see other states following suit. This is probably going to be needed to be fought on almost every state level, if not the national level eventually.
How about if we do a behavioral health assessment of all public school teachers and other government workers, first? Followed up with assessments for all the busybodies who want to “assess” our children in the first place?
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