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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I'm stealing that for my FB crusade. | |
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Location: That part of Texas | If I was a school administrator, I would hate the liability that this law could impose or give the impression that it imposes to on top of what everybody else has written.
If you test a child and find out they do have a problem, where does your involvement end and how responsible are you for seeing that they receive treatment, aftercare is completed and if it is a severe enough condition, are you liable for not disclosing it to other teachers, professionals working in the system and possibly the parents of the children? If you do have a student who pulls something like Adam Lanza did in Newtown and you didn't do something or supervise the treatment correctly, are you at risk for being responsible just as the parents might be?
On top of those concerns, I also just want to say that I would have hated to go through testing like this as a child. I did have to see a counselor once when I was about 11 and I greatly resented my mother for it because I thought she thought I was crazy or something was wrong with me. It ended up being a huge fiasco that didn't benefit any of us. With everything else our kids have to contend with in today's world, I think a mandatory evaluation for everyone is just overkill.
I know most of the schools in our area might discreetly call in our local mental health care people in to do an evaluation -- usually labeled more as trying to find a "learning disability" than a mental thing (even though that's what is going on -- and that seems to help greatly for those kids who have emerging bi-polar, schizophrenic and other mental problems. They do it in a way that doesn't out the child so to speak though. | |
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Location: North Dakota | All the children that are not cookie cutter perfect in the eyes of the people running the school would be labled mentally off! The poor kids would't have a chance, just another way for humans to judge people they think are below them. The school system is the problem not the children 99% of the time. | |
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| angelica - 2014-01-19 12:11 PMAll the children that are not cookie cutter perfect in the eyes of the people running the school would be labled mentally off! The poor kids would't have a chance, just another way for humans to judge people they think are below them. The school system is the problem not the children 99% of the time.  Many of the students come from two parents with big problems genetically or self created, poor family role models, no work ethic, lack of respect, no value for any kind of education, no goal setting, no competitive edge, no desire to improve, limited to no values or standards, no discipline, no boundaries, and self entitlement. These parents have more than one child and the children continue the cycle......some of which is genetic...others created by experiences. Who is going to spend time with them socially, but others just like them? Until this changes and people start striving for improvement, everything else is a band aid. Why are so many people like this? Why do they always find others who think the ways they do? It might be easier to do a psych eval of the parents instead. LOL j/k.... well maybe not. Ha
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| cheryl makofka - 2014-01-19 10:37 AM
Maybe these assessments will prevent school shootings, this is the only benefit I can see out of it
When these school shootings are examined most all of the perpatrators had issues that were already known by parents, teachers and classmates but nothing was done. How are they going to force treatment?? Per Tilt's post on page 1, identifying is not the main problem, getting action by parents and the school system is the problem. In our current sue happy, politically correct society I don't see forced treatment happening. | |
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Location: Florida | What law? I am totally confused. | |
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