Another reason to home school. Illinois has some of the lousiest public schools in the country, incapable of teaching basic literacy and math to kids, and doing so at very high expense. (Looking at you Chicago.) With this monstrosity, Illinois completes the transformation of schools into loony bins. Another reason to home school.
When my kids were in school, an obnoxious grade school shrink thought that both our twins were autistic. Larry was autistic; his brother has completed his eighth year of practicing law with me. It was obvious to us at the time that the shrink didn’t know what he was talking about. Now all families in Illinois with kids in public schools will face the risk of the lives of their kids being disrupted due to this nonsense. For now, parents can opt out of this for their kids, and as an attorney and a parent who has been through the mill, I would recommend that all parents opt out.
Let me guess….
If your not a supporter of LGBTQ and you go to Church each Sunday with your folks then duck. The school house nurse is taking a swipe at you with her big white net.
A second guess;
The insane are running the screenings in the public schools of IL.
I’m all for mental health tests in the schools … for the teachers!
Governor Hippo should be tested first, and sent to the hospital in Chester, Il if the results show criminal insanity.
(Continuing with Philip’s reasoning..)
“”And so Mr & Mrs Smith, little Bobby has shown consistent behavior such as saying… I don’t know how to say this… things like that little boy in Kindergarten Cop.”
mental illness
noun
1.
a condition which causes serious disorder in a person’s behaviour or thinking.
That sums up the 95% of the Dems and the LGBTQ crowd.
Seriously.
A Godless society is ripe for the picking.
Satan is harvesting souls right before our very eye’s. His time is short and his minions are working overtime. The good news.
The victory is ours.
Let’s help gather some souls before the last curtain falls on this epic story, Life on Earth.
Very dangerous dangerous program. Gov Jabba the Hutt should look in the mirror. Illinois will go back to the 30s with eugenics and lobotimies.
The Democratic Party is the electoral vehicle for people mad to manufacture patron-client relationships between ordinary people and state agencies and ordinary people and various clerisies. The people mad to do this typically are maintained by public sector salaries or insurance re-imbursements. You’ll recall Christopher Lasch’s remark that in much of the literature he was surveying, the role of a child’s parent was assumed to be that of traffic cop between various professionals who had care of the child.
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Please note who trains these clerisies. Some are trained in teacher’s colleges (which were notoriously unserious 35 years ago and are now worse), some are trained in social work programs (whose curricula will persuade you that social work is a pseudo-profession), some are trained in ‘counseling’ programs, and some in clinical psychology. There are psychiatrists too, though they’re a single-digit minority of the mental health trade.
The most common factor I have seen in the mental health industry (obviously doesn’t apply to *everyone*) is there is an obnoxious Messiah complex among them. Marry that to public education (hell, liberalism in sum) and it’s a witch’s brew.
I have seen the same kinds of things Don mentioned in his post regarding my friends and their kids here in the People’s Democratic Republic of Maryland. Needless to say, they switched to private or homeschooling shortly after.
The mental health biz is not in the biz to cure a problem. Rather they label people and therefore create a lifetime stigma . Then the person is ruined for a life. I work in a hospital that could use more pastors and a lot less social workers who only want their caseloads to grow. Psychiatrists throw out pills to control behaviors but solve nothing because they too want return business
Between this and the gerrymandering stuff I have been feeling intensely ashamed of late of being both a resident and employee of the state of Illinois, as if I am somehow personally responsible for this and deserve to suffer for not being smart enough and financially stable enough to move elsewhere… not sure why, I know it sound silly.
We are part of the resistance Elaine. When the Blue Regime falls, and it will fall, good people will be needed to pick up the pieces.
In my experience and as far as I’m concerned, most people who go into the mental health “Profession” could just as easily (or maybe even more readily) be the patient.
You can put almost anyone, especially a child, in front of the average Psychiatrist / Psychologist or counselor and find something wrong with them (ADHD, ADD, ODD, Autism Spectrum… the list goes on) that will “require” all sorts of drugs with lovely side effects with long-term consequences [see how antidepressants are linked to homicidal tendencies in minors]. How many kids will “discover” their gender identity disorder in these screenings?
I seem to recall that under 25% of those eligible for military service are medically fit. How many of those are actually not fit? Something tells me that if we wiped out all the questionable mental diagnosis’ (Most if not all ADHD, ADD and maybe 75% or better of Autism Spectrum diagnosis’) we’d be in a lot better shape as a society.
No one talks about how kids can grow out of those questionable diagnosis’, but the record stays. As far as I’m concerned, you should only be able to see a quack if you voluntarily see one over the age of 18 or must be institutionalized as a genuine threat to yourself or others.
You got little Jimmy some “help” adjusting in middle school, great! But now he’s got a record of antidepressants and you’ve destroyed his ability to join the Marines out of high school and leave his dump town for a better life…
Stepping aside now…
In my experience and as far as I’m concerned, most people who go into the mental health “Profession” could just as easily (or maybe even more readily) be the patient.
I took 20 hours of psych at the U of I as an undergrad in the seventies, filling up most of my non history and poly sci classes. Easy A’s and somewhat interesting as long as you viewed all the schools of psych as games which I did. It was a common place among pysch majors back then, half humorously, that you became a psych major to figure out why you were so screwed up.
State control of personal information, no way that will be used against people, I’m sure they will be kept “confidential”. Never trust the government with physiological information, they will use it against you, of course, “for your own protection.”
I would love a governor showdown between California and Illinois to see which one has the worst government, I will put my money on California, the craziness is off the charts right now.
You can opt out of the screenings, today.
Tomorrow,
If you can show cause.
If you have a medical excuse.
If you are one of the special people.
If you believe that they will not just do it anyway.
Fight or flight. When you look around your blue state and realize there are only enough of you to hold up one end of your protest banner, it’s time to run.
“…..feeling intensely ashamed of late of being both a resident and employee of the state of Illinois, as if I am somehow personally responsible for this and deserve to suffer for not being smart enough and financially stable enough to move elsewhere… not sure why, I know it sound silly.” EK
No shame Elaine. None.
You have what’s known as The Chicago Blues syndrome. [ Not to be confused with the 80’s cop program. ]
The small blues in our town is surrounded by red. It too will self-destruct.
You don’t have to live in Chicago to suffer the effects.
God bless you Elaine Krewer.
The old teacher agrees that this is a disastrously dumb (and dangerous) idea. It also may (hopefully) explode on launch because the time and paperwork required to properly screen every kid will overwhelm serious counsellors, teachers and administrators. May I prophecy a scale-back at least before September?
To clear up some misconceptions:
I have only visited Chicago on a few occasions…and, two years ago, I had the unfortunate experience of driving through Chicago four times in one week.
Maryland and New York State are giving Illinois a run for the money for being a lunatic state.
I have had to deal with an inability to get mental health help. When my troubled older son was in his early teens it was impossible to get him an appointment with a therapist. Having said that, I would not want the school in charge of my sons’ mental health, given that the schools contributed to his problems.
Schools are already overrun with paperwork and red tape. I would think that the problem is kids falling through the cracks of the education system. Not kids being caught by nets and controlled by the education system.
My hunch is that this is smoke and mirrors to give off a perception that school are looking after “every” kid.
Ultimately parents are the first and most important educators in their children’s lives. A good school would support that.
My doctor told me that children go in and out of various behavior.
Adults not so much.
Perhaps getting more Medicaid funds is the reason. Your child; any child ought not be used as a statistic or guinea pig.