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I llinois
Proposal Would Require Mental Health Test for ALL School Children
By Rachel Pendergraft
The members of the Illinois
Children’s Mental Health Partnership wants all children 0-18 to receive
mandatory mental health screening before being allowed to enter public school
each year.
The Illinois plan is the first
in the nation to have progressed so far. Illinois now requires each child to
have a physical examination certificate and for the certificate to be updated
each year. The law for the mandatory physical screening was signed into law last
year with $10 million set aside for the program.
Mental health officials,
members of several state agencies, and the National Education Association want
the mental health screening added to the certificate requirements. They say it
is necessary to find out which children are developing anti-social behavior so
that these kids can receive the needed mental health intervention. Mental health
experts view anti social behavior to range from shyness, depression, drug use,
and gang activity, to homophobia, and racism, which many psychiatrists now call
a"mental disease”
Another group that backs the
inclusion of mandatory mental health screening is the giant pharmaceutical
companies. If the proposal does end up as a requirement for children, the drug
companies will benefit enormously from having thousands of young children being
diagnosed with hyperactivity, depression, and"shyness” which some are now
diagnosing as a mental disease.
Notice the recent explosion of
commercials on television offering drugs to treat ADHD for children and adults
instead of using sound nutrition. There is also the new epidemic in which those
formerly referred to as shy are now being diagnosed with Social Anxiety
Disorder. Instead of working to increase their self -esteem through praise and
involvement in group activities, drugs are prescribed. How do they expect our
children to stay off illicit drugs, when every so-called problem is said to have
a quick drug fix. The only difference is that the pharmaceutical companies and
leaders in the mental health industry do not want kids getting drugs off the
street. They want to be the ones making the profit.
This news offers just one more
reason why parents must seriously consider home schooling their children. I have
nothing against public education. It was Christians who thought it was important
enough that tax dollars should be used for the educational advancement of their
children - rich and poor alike. State and national laws set Christianity as the
basis of education and likewise education was for the purpose of becoming better
Christians.
In 1892, the Kansas teachers’
union compiled a book on the history of education in America. They noted that
American education was"nurtured in the lap of the church”. Christian
education is essential to good government and must be at the core of all
American schools. It has been said before, and it is true. The philosophy of the
school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
The unethical multi billion dollar
pharmaceutical industry, putting profits above people, and social deviants who
despise traditional Christian values are targeting kids in public school. If
public schools aren’t based on Christianity, we must , do all within our
power to get our children out. Our children are harmed just as much by a little
“mind poisoning” given in daily increments as they are with one big dosage.
Unfortunately, the little doses given over a long period of time often aren’t
able to be measured until its too late.
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