I have been on an SSRI for a little over a year now for OCD/anxiety, and it has worked well enough that they have started to wean me off it. However, I could not imagine being put on anything as a child or teen.
As for people being forced to put their kids on it or face expulsion, that is horrible, and reminds me of something the nazis would have tried.
I don't understand either. I've done some research on psychiatric drugs (it requires a Barbra Streisand detector to weed out the more hysterical material) and it truly seems to be a matter not to be taken lightly. To be prescribed by force by an educator with no medical training makes utterly no sense.