The Department of Health and Human Services will announce this fall a plan to improve access to mental health services. The initiative follows the release last year of a report commissioned by President George W. Bush recommending that “schools should . . . play a …
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I posted this article yesterday in my newsletter because of the very reasons you mention. Don’t you find it amazing how little rights parents are getting these days…amazing!
Keep up the great work!
You have brought up some good points, however, I support the idea
of screening students for mental health issues. Having slipped
through the cracks myself, my condition was allowed to develop and
worsen because it was brushed off as a “behavioral” problem. My
parents were not interested in having the family image tarnished
by a “loonie”, so they failed to inform any of my teachers of my
mental illness. If I had only been caught so long ago, it could
have saved me years of pain and anguish. I wanted help, but I
had no idea how to ask or where to go. I am now a convicted
felon.