Activist Court Protects Mental Screening Of Kids
Phyllis Schlafly, Nov. 23, 2005
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“A study by Harvard University and the National Institute of Mental Health released in August claims that 46 percent of all Americans will, at some point in their lives, develop a mental disorder. Such an extraordinary statement by so-called experts indicates that mental diagnoses are unscientific, and the people pushing screening of all schoolchildren are, well, probably crazy — or are shilling for the manufacturers of the psychotropic drugs that will be prescribed for kids who flunk the TeenScreen test.
The Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment, which was reaffirmed in the No Child Left Behind Act, prohibits schools from interrogating students about “mental or psychological problems” without prior informed written parental consent. The Department of Education has sent a letter to every school superintendent setting forth the school’s obligations.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) emphatically stated, “It is not, and should not be, the role of government to subject children to arbitrary mental health screenings without the consent of their parents.” Right on, Rep. Sensenbrenner!
Congress should make compliance with the law about parents’ rights a condition of federal funding to schools just like other civil rights requirements.”
Right on!
Jenny Hatch