[2nd amendment mama]

The growth in the number of school psychologists in some states also means there are more professionals around to intervene. In California, for example, the number of school psychologists jumped almost 20% in the past six years to 4,063 psychologists, up from 3,388 in 1997.

Here is the whole crux of the problem!!!!! When I went to school there was no such thing as a "school psychologist" and we didn't have half the problems in school that they have today. Oh yeah, and when we did do something wrong - the punishment at school was minor compared to what we got at home when our parents found out!!!

[JohnGaltSpeaking]

Well maybe if we ban all mean words there will be no more violence in the world. What a bunch of crap. If the teachers could teach, you wouldnt have kids doped up in class. If you had administrators that punished bad behavior you wouldnt have as much of it. But clearly sitting in a sircle and making fun of ourselves is good, model UN like behavior...

[widowithfoursons]

And California is laying off 20% of its teachers due to budget crunch. Most of these kids are laughing up their sleeves at these moron's indoctrination tactics. Kids will manage just fine, thank you, without the psychobabble BS. Gee, wonder if maybe the time could be better spent with students reading (aloud) from a good book during this classroom time? Oh yeah, if they learn to read they might discover they are being shortchanged by the adults who should be educating them.

[dark_lord]

When I went to school there was no such thing as a "school psychologist" and we didn't have half the problems in school that they have today.

Back in 1964 there was a school psychologist in my elementary school. Guess we were modern way back when! We had a speech therepist also. I had personal experience with that because I stuttered a bit as a kid. But the speech therepist fixed whatever needed fixing because by 3rd grade I no longer stuttered.